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- Democrats split victories
By The Associated Press
Paul Tsongas won Maryland’s
presidential primary Tuesday night,
Bill Clinton countered in Georgia and
Jerry Brown won in Colorado as
Democratic rivals battled coast-to
coast for front-runner credentials.
President Bush swept the GOP
contests, but Patrick Buchanan main
tained his determined challenge.
Bush won Colorado and the presi
dent said he was “well on our way to
the nomination.” He said he was
“committed to regaining” the support
of Republican voters who deserted
him for the more conservative
Buchanan.
Tsongas said his victory made him
the “breakthrough kid,” because he
was the first Democrat to prevail in a
primary outside his home region.
Georgia presented Clinton with his
first victory of the primary season,
but it lacked drama, coming in his
southern stronghold.
The first votes from Colorado
showed Jerry Brown winning with
Tsongas and Clinton close behind.
The night’s results appeared to assure
a continuing, contentious siring of
primaries as Democrats pick an op
ponent for Bush in the fall.
Tsongas also won in caucuses in
Idaho and Utah’s primary. Iowa Sena
tor Tom Harkin finished a close sec
ond in Idaho.
Clinton’s victory was a long time
coming for the candidate who loomed
large before a scries of character
controversies stalled his campaign in
New Hampshire. He hoped to parlay
his win into success next week in
several southern states, and wasted
no time in attacking Tsongas as an
advocate of “a refined version of 1980s
style trickle-down economics.”
Bush won with 64 percent of the
GOP vote in Georgia, to 36 percent
for Buchanan, with 99 percent counted.
Buchanan said in advance that a strong
showing would be enough to fuel his
candidacy throughout the primary
season.
In Maryland, with 96 percent of
the precincts in. Bush was gaining 70
percent to 30 percent for Buchanan.
The president was leading for all
94 delegates in the two states. He
reached out to Buchanan’s support
ers, saying, “To those who have been
with me in the past but did not vote for
me today, I hear your concerns and
understand your frustration with
Washington.”
The Democratic returns in Geor
gia showed Clinton with 58 percent,
Tsongas 23 percent. Jerry Brown w as
third at 8 percent, trailed by Sen. Bob
Kerrey at 5 percent and Sen. Tom
Hark in, 2 percent.
In Maryland, Tsongas had 40 per
cent to 34 percent for Clinton. Brown
had 8 percent.
Clinton was leading for 83 dele
gates from the two states: Tsongas for
60.
In Colorado Brown won 18 dele
gates with 29 percent of the vote,
Tsongas had 25 percent ol the vote
and 15 delegates while Clinton had
28 percent and 14 delegates. Kerrey
had 12 percent of the vote, but won no
delegates.
In Idaho, Tsongas won 6 delegates
and 30 percent of the vote while Harkin
had 6 delegates and 29 percent of the
vote. An uncommitted slate had 2
delegates and 19 percent of the vote.
Elections
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Delegates won in each
state by each candidate
in Tuesday's presidential
primaries and caucuses:
Caucus results are not available J Primary
for Washington and Minnesota. ™ Caucus
Democrats
85% reporting 0/o ot
Delegates won vote
Brown 18 29%
Tsongas 15 25%
Clinton 14 28%
Kerrey 0 J2%
Harkm 0 3%
Uncommitted 0 2%
Other _ 0^ 1%
Republicans
94% reporting
Bush26 68%
Buchanan 11 30%
Others 0 2%
Democrats
99% reporting % Qf
Delegates won vote
Clinton 54 58%
Tsongas 22 23%
Brown 0 8%
Kerrey0 5%
Uncommitted 0 4%
Harkm 0 2%
Republicans
99% reporting
Bush52 64%
Buchanan 0 36%
Democrats
96% reporting % q}
Delegates won vote
Tsongas 38 40%
Clinton 29 34%
Brown _0 8%
Uncommitted 0 6%
Harkm 0 6%
Kerrey 0 5%
LaRouche 0 1%
Republicans
96% reporting
Bush42 70%
Buchanan 0 30%
AP
Russia plans for one exchange rate
MOSCOW — Russia is speeding
up its plan to make the ruble convert
ible as part of an economic reform
program to hasten the country’s
admission into the International
Monetary Fund,an official said Tues
day.
The program presented to the
Russian Parliament by economics czar
Yegor Gaidar also calls for freeing
more prices, budget cuts, higher taxes,
higher interest rates and stashing
unemployment benefits.
The program’s main goals arc to
eliminate the huge budget deficit and
cool off inflation.
Such moves as those announced
Tuesday will strengthen the ruble and
create a more favorable investment
climate for foreigners, Gaidar told
lawmakers.
The program envisages the intro
duction by April 20 of two exchange
rates for the ruble. It says a single rate
will go into effect alter the govern
ment has accumulated a hard cur
rency fund to prop up the ruble. Rus
sia has asked the West to contribute
S6 billion to the fund.
The single exchange rate also would
end decades of confusion over Rus
sia’s currency. _
Senator rebuffs Japan
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen.
Ernest Hollings says he was just
responding to Japanese criticism
when he told workcis they “should
draw a mushroom cloud and put
underneath it: ‘Made in America
by lazy and illiterate Americans
and tested in Japan. ”
Hollings said he used the World
War II image of the atomic bombs
dropped on Japan, which killed
thousands and hastened the end of
the war, because he wanted to show
that he w as tired of Japanese criti
cism.
The 70-\ear-old Democrat was
lourmg South Carolina's Roller
Bearing Co. of America plant
Monday w hen he made the state
ment to about 90 workers. The
comments drew applause from the
workers at a plant in Hartsville.
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Housing, economic index show
improvement, gradual recovery
WASHINGTON — Reports of a big jump
in the government’s main economic barometer
and a surge in new home sales suggested on
Tuesday the economy has begun to perk up.
President Bush welcomed the reports, say
ing, “It’s nice to have some
encouraging news.”
Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan cautioned
that “extraordinary forces’’
still make the future uncer
tain.
— —_— — The Commerce Depart
ment said its Index of Leading Economic Indi
cators jumped 0.9 percent in January after two
straight declines. Seven of the 11 forward
looking statistics posted gams, led by soaring
stock prices.
The index is designed to forecast economic
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activity six to nine months in advance. Three
consecutive declines arc viewed as a fairly
reliable signal of an approaching recession.
For the year, the Bush administration and
many economists arc forecasting growth of just
1.5 percent compared with an average of 6
percent during the first year of recovery from
other post-World War II recessions.
In a second report, the departments of
Commerce and Housing and Urban Develop
ment said sales of new homes shot up 12.1J
percent in January, the steepest advance in a
year. It was the third increase in four months
and more than wiped out a 4.6 percent decline
in December.
Except lor the Northeast, all regions posted
advances including a huge 63 percent gain in
the Midwest.
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Hula Hoops fascinate
Chinese population
BEIJING — Hula hoops arc the latest cra/c
among Chinese of all ages, three decades after
the novelties began gathering dust in Western
closets.
The government pushes them as a way to
stay fit, and budding capitalists are making a
quick profit.
The plastic rings, known as “hula quan" in
•Chinese, have joined yo-yos and Slinkics as
Western-inspired fads to hit the world’s most
populous country, whose Communist govern
ment has often been wary of other foreign
influences.
Some Chinese originally unimpressed by
the simple ring of plastic tubing have become L
converts, causing prices for the hoops to double
over the past few weeks at Beijing markets. B
“Young and old people, they’re all buying I
them,” said vendor Sun Xiuhua. I
Sun said she has sold as many as 1 (X) hula t
hoops in one day since adding them to her
collection of wares that includes toys, mittens |
and socks.
Maybe it’s the sales pitch.
“It’s to help you look good,” she said, ex
plaining that the swiveling motion is good I
exercise for the waist and hips.