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Tuesday November 4, 1980
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News stories from Tuesday November 4, 1980


Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

  • Ronald Reagan won the presidency and promised "to put America back to work again." He rode a tide of economic discontent against President Carter and shaped a stunning electoral landslide by taking away the President's Southern base, smashing his expected strength in the East and taking command of the Middle West. The entire West was Mr. Reagan's, as expected. [New York Times]
  • Republicans gained in the Senate, cutting deeply into the Democrats' majority, and appeared within striking distance of ending 26 years of Democratic control. Those defeated included Birch Bayh of Indiana and George McGovern of South Dakota, both liberal Democrats. Democrats kept control of the House but by a reduced margin. Incomplete returns indicated that Republicans would pick up more than 20 seats. Most of the defeated Democrats are moderates or liberals. [New York Times]
  • At least two new Republican Governors were elected. Christopher Bond, the former Governor of Missouri, won back the seat he lost four years ago, and John Spellman, a county executive, won in Washington. [New York Times]
  • Alfonse D'Amato won the United States Senate race in New York. The Republican defeated Elizabeth Holtzman, a Democrat, and Senator Jacob Javits, who trailed far behind on the Liberal Party line. John Murphy lost his bid for re-election to the House. Mr. Murphy, a nine-term Democratic Representative, was hobbled by his indictment in the Abscam scandal and was beaten by Guy Molinari, the Republican-Conservative candidate, in New York's 17th Congressional District.

    Frank Thompson lost in New Jersey in his bid for a 14th term in the House. The Trenton Democrat has been indicted in the Abscam investigation. Another Democratic Representative, Andrew Maguire, was defeated in his bid for a fourth term. Christopher Dodd won a United States Senate seat from Connecticut. Mr. Dodd, a Democrat, defeated former Senator James Buckley of New York, a Republican. [New York Times]

  • Iran has called for a speedy U.S. reply "through the mass media" to its conditions for the release of the American hostages. The message, conveyed through the Algerian Embassy in Washington, seemed to reflect an urgent desire to end the hostage crisis and the resulting Western economic boycott.

    Washington turned aside the plea from Iran for a speedy and public reply to its conditions for freeing the hostages. Officials said that the conditions had been presented in a preemptory tone and contained so many negative provisions that a quick response might jeopardize the captives' release.

    American claims against Iran would be nationalized to prevent American individuals or companies from directly suing Teheran for past claims under a Carter administration proposal that was reported by lawyers involved in such litigation. This, they said, is a possible way to facilitate the negotiations for the release of the captives. [New York Times]

  • Iraqi territorial claims were pressed by President Saddam Hussein. He warned that Iraqi demands might increase if Iran persisted in its rejection of "Iraq's rights," and he said that Iraq was prepared for a long war and would continue fighting until its objectives were achieved. [New York Times]
  • A refugee resettlement plan was pressed by Washington one day after the Supreme Court lifted a prohibition on the transfer of the refugees to Fort Allen in Puerto Rico. Federal officials said that the first group would fly to the island this week and that it would be made up of newly arrived Haitians rather than Cubans. [New York Times]
  • F.B.I. searches without warrants were deplored by a federal prosecutor. He asked a jury to find two former officials of the bureau guilty of conspiring to violate the rights of Americans by authorizing such break-ins at residences in 1972 and 1973. [New York Times]
  • A new leader of Britain's Labor Party is being chosen by the party's members in the House of Commons. Denis Healey, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, won the first round of the voting, but a close contest is considered likely in the final ballot. [New York Times]


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