Broyhill, Rhodes Win in N. Carolina, Ohio Votes

Moderate Rep. James T. Broyhill soundly defeated arch-conservative David Funderburk in North Carolina’s divisive Republican Senate primary Tuesday, while former Gov. Terry Sanford captured the Democratic nomination by crushing nine rivals with surprising ease.

Former Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes launched his comeback bid for an unprecedented fifth term by defeating two state senators for the GOP nomination. Rhodes, who shrugged off suggestions that at 76 he is too old to serve again, will face Democratic Gov. Richard F. Celeste, 48, who had no primary challengers.

Democratic Sen. John Glenn of Ohio easily won nomination to a third term against Don Scott, a follower of extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. Glenn will be challenged in November by Republican Rep. Thomas Kindness, who was unopposed.

Long Wins in Indiana

In Indiana, the third state to hold a primary Tuesday, the Democratic-endorsed candidate for Senate, Valparaiso city councilwoman Jill L. Long, 33, trounced Georgia D. Irey, another LaRouche disciple.

“Now we can get down to the real issues,” Long said of her coming battle with Republican Sen. Dan Quayle, who had no primary opposition.

Voters in Indiana’s 8th District set the stage for a rematch of the closest congressional race this century, giving incumbent Democratic Rep. Frank McCloskey the nomination over LaRouche supporter John W. Taylor. Richard D. McIntyre, who lost to McCloskey by four votes in a House election in 1984, was the only Republican candidate.

Indiana’s 1st District saw a comeback bid by Katie Hall, the state’s first black congresswoman who lost a three-way primary race in 1984 to Rep. Peter J. Visclosky.

Democratic Hopes Raised

Sanford’s margin of victory, coupled with the GOP’s ideological rift, buoyed Democratic hopes of reclaiming the seat being vacated by ailing Republican Sen. James P. East, a protege of Sen. Jesse Helms. Democrats see a victory in North Carolina as important in overcoming the GOP’s current 53-47 margin in the Senate.

“This is the beginning of the campaign to put a different voice in Washington,” a jubilant Sanford told supporters. He pledged to run a campaign “of issues and hope and determination.”

With 96% of the vote in, Broyhill had 133,028 votes, or 67%, Funderburk had 60,486 votes, or 30%, and white supremacist Glenn Miller had 6,076 votes, or 3%.

During the campaign, Broyhill fended off a constant assault on his conservative credentials by Funderburk, a former ambassador to Romania who was chosen to run by Helms’ National Congressional Club.

But Funderburk, conceding defeat, congratulated his victorious rival and pledged to “keep my commitment to support the ticket in the fall.”

The 68-year-old Sanford led with 388,940 votes, or 60%, with 96% of the votes counted. His closest competitor was former Insurance Commissioner John Ingram, 56, who had 104,859 votes, or 16%.

Waste Dump Defeated

Voters in North Carolina overwhelmingly rejected an advisory referendum on a high-level nuclear waste repository and a proposal to move statewide elections to odd-numbered years.

With about 98% of the vote counted in unofficial returns, the non-binding referendum was failing by a vote of 738,562, or 93%, to 55,946, or 7%. There were 533,837 votes, or 70%, against the election proposal, and 227,221, or 30% for it.

With 83% of Ohio’s precincts reporting, Rhodes led with 276,746 votes, or 47%. State Senate President Paul Gillmor had 225,250 votes, or 40% and state Sen. Paul Pfeifer had 82,006 votes, or 13%.

In Indiana, with 67% of the precincts reporting, Long had 171,387 votes, or 75%, and Irey had 56,456 votes, or 25%.

Funderburk, 42, called the primary “a battle for the heart and soul” of the state GOP and criticized Broyhill for such things as supporting a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Broyhill, 58-year-old heir to a furniture fortune and veteran of 12 terms in the House, was shown as leading by a wide margin in the only published, independent poll of the primary, the Carolina Poll, sponsored by the University of North Carolina School of Journalism.

Helms, whose conservative politics has dominated the state GOP since the mid-1970s, maintained public neutrality, but a Congressional Club source said that he voted for Funderburk by absentee ballot.

Drafted by Party

Sanford, the former Duke University president who has not held public office since 1965, was drafted by party leaders after former Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. refused to enter the race so soon after his bruising loss to Helms in 1984.

In Ohio, an early March survey by the University of Akron showed Rhodes supported by 70% of the Republicans questioned, with 19% for Gillmor, 47, and 11% for Pfeifer, 43. But Pfeifer and Gillmor said the survey was taken before their campaigns were established and was not an accurate reflection of current voter opinion.

Pfeifer said that if Republicans nominated Rhodes, they would be “throwing the election into Celeste’s lap,” and suggested on occasion that Rhodes might be too old and lack the vision to lead Ohio for four more years.

“I don’t have cancer, and I haven’t been shot,” was Rhodes’ comeback to such charges, a reference to President Reagan, who is seen as a strong leader at age 75.

In the Senate race, with 64% of the precincts reporting, Glenn had 443,148 votes, or 87%, to Scott’s 64,307 votes, or 13%.

Ads Hit LaRouche Group

In Indiana, Long, a business professor at Valparaiso University, launched a last-minute radio advertising campaign urging voters to “chase LaRouche and his people out of Indiana with a vote for Jill Long.”

Irey, a 62-year-old housewife, espouses such LaRouche views as quarantining AIDS victims, prosecuting the Queen of England for drug dealing and describing Henry A. Kissinger as a Soviet agent.