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News Digest By the Associated Press Edited by Bob Nelson Rivals look to stop super Super Tuesday for Bush Republican presidential rivals searched Monday for a way to stop George Bush from a clean sweep on Super Tuesday, while Demo crats scoured the South for the votes that could propel one of them out of the tightly bunched back on the biggest primary day in U.S. history. Vice President Bush said a sweep of the 17 GOP primaries was “too much for anyone to expect.” But he was leading polls in virtually every Super Tuesday state except Missouri, where Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas had a narrow edge. Even Dole conceded in Oklahoma City “it’s fair to say George Bush has a good margin,” but said the race is tight in Oklahoma, Missouri and North Carolina. Earlier, the Kansas senator said in Birming ham, Ala., “My philosophy in the South ought to sell like hotcakes, but so far it isn’t happen ing. Bush is getting a lot of ruboff from Ronald Reagan.” Dole claimed polls show “that I beat all the Democrats. (Bush) doesn’t beat any of them.. .. We ought to nominate a winner instead of a loser.” Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, hoping to emerge from the Super Tuesday contests in his home state and 20 others with a delegate lead, campaigned at a retirees’ condo minium development in North Miami Beach and picked up the backing of Annie Ackerman, 74, a onetime Chicago ward organizer now known for her prowess in turning retirees out to vote. She called him “a person of integrity who gets things done” and “a mcnsch,” using the Yiddish word for good man. Asked if Super Tuesday was a flop in bring ing moderate and conservative Democrats back to the party’s fold, the governor replied, “It’s not been a flop for Mike Dukakis.” Four of his rivals — Jesse Jackson, Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore Jr. and Gary Hart — were in Texas Monday. Jackson, hoping the allegiance of black voters throughout die South will give him his finest hour in two runs for the presidency, visited an AIDS clinic in Dallas and journeyed to Brownsville, Texas, where he pledged to fight efforts to make English the official lan guage of the United States. “Wc arc a great nation. Wc can speak more than one language,” said Jackson. Gephardt, the Missouri congressman who has staked his campaign on a tough stance against countries with unfair trade practices, made a pitch in Dallas for an oil import fee and campaigned in San Antonio in front of a land mark. “WeTestanding today in frontof the Alamo, a place where there was a fight for independ ence,” Gephardt said. “This election in 1988 is a fight again for the independence of America.” Pat Robertson raised again his claim that there arc Soviet missiles in Cuba, telling a satellite radio audience in 18 slates, “I don’t think the missiles ever got taken out in ‘62. And I am somewhat convinced that more missiles have been introduced.” Six die in Palestinian bus attack DIMONA, Israel — Three Pales tinian guerrillas seized a commuter bus Monday and held a group of nuclear plant workers hostage, killing three Israeli civilians and wounding nine others before being shot to death by police, officials said. Army officials said the guerrillas infiltrated from Egypt and held 10 women and one man hostage for about three hours. The bus was seized as it shuttled workers of the top-secret Dimona nuclear plant. In the occupied territories, at least 12 Arabs were shot Monday during clashes with Israeli troops, and the army said Palestinian protesters hurled a grenade at troops, wounding one soldier slightly in the West Bank village of Idna. Also, more than 20 Arab tax col lectors in the Gaza Strip submitted mass resignations after underground leaflets called for Palestinians to quit working for Israel’s military admini stration. An army official says the resignations arc not final. Israeli analysts said escalating violence could harden the position of Shamir and the right-wing Likud Bloc, which has not accepted the peace initiatives of U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Defense Minister Yitzhak Ravin told Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, that Monday’s bus victims “were killed for nothing else but for being Jewish, residents of Israel.” In an anonymous telephone call to a Western news agency, a man claimed responsibility for the hijack ing in the name of Force 17, a Pales tinian commando group linked to Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization. It was the eighth infiltration into Israel from Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon since late November. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman con demned the hijacking and noted “with sadness that at a time when the major ity .. . are looking for a peaceful solution of the Arab-Isracli conflict, terrorists emerge to attack the inno cents.” Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, a leader of Israel’s doves, said the hi jacking was an indication of why Is rael refused to deal with Arafat. Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, the armed forces chief of staff, said the guerril las crossed the lightly guarded border from Egypt, and he criticized Egyp tian authorities for not doing more to slop such infiltrations. Army officials said the terrorists were armed with fragmentation gre nades, two Soviet Kalashnikov as sault rifles and a Swedish-made Karl Gustav submachine gun. Killings avert dreadtul terrorist act GIBRALTAR — British soldiers shot three IRA members dead, and Britain said Monday that the killings averted a “dreadful tcrroristact”in its fortress colony on the southern coast of Spain. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said in London the soldiers opened fire Sunday after the three unarmed IRA members parked a while Renault-5 with Spanish license plates near The Convent, the official residence of the governor. He said the soldiers acted on a lip from Spanish police. Police said they were searching Gibraltar and adjacent Spanish terri tory for a car bcl ic ved con nee ted w i th a bomb attack the Irish Republican Army allegedly planned at the governor’s residence during thcccrc monial changing of the guard, which hundreds of spectators attend. Members of the Royal Anglian Regiment, just transferred from duly in Northern Ireland, were scheduled to participate in the ceremony Tues day. The IRA is fighting a guerrilla war to drive the British from North ern Ireland. The two men and a woman were shot by men described by witnesses as wearing jeans and speaking with British accents. The British soldiers were believed to be members of the Special Air Services,or S AS,an elite undercover unit that has been involved in previ ous actions against the IRA. Sgl. George Field of the 220-man Gibraltar police force said officers were looking for a Ford automobile but did not believe it contained ex plosives. The independent Spanish news agency Europa Press quoted police in Madrid, however, as saying the car might contain explosives intended for an attack Tuesday. Howe acknowledged in his re marks to Parliament that the three IRA members were on foot and un armed when they were killed Sunday afternoon while heading for the Spanish frontier. He said, “There is no doubt what ever that as a result of yesterday’s events a dreadful terrorist act has been averted. The three people killed were actively involved in the plan ning and attempted execution of that act.” He said reports that the Renault contained several hundred pounds of explosives were unfounded. 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