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Harkin expected
to drop out today
WASHINGTON — President Bush
and Democrat Bill Clinton headed
toward delegate-rich “Super Tuesday”
races claiming big boosts from week
end victories.
The Demo
cratic field was ex
pected to narrow
by one as Iowa
Sen. Tom Harkin
decided to call it
quits.
Harkin scheduled news conferences
for Monday in Washington and Dcs
Moines after a series of disappointing
finishes, including a 6 percent show
ing in South Carolina on Saturday.
Two Iowa Democratic Party offi
cials said Harkin told he would an
nounce his withdrawal from the race
on Monday.
Nevada Democrats, meanwhile,
held parly caucuses Sunday to begin
the delegate selection process.
Republican challenger Patrick
Buchanan remained winlcss but vowed
to take his insurgent candidacy all the
way to the GOP convention in Hous
ton in August. “This campaign ... is
about more than piling up delegates,"
Buchanan said in a TV interview.
However, Buchanan strategists arc
now looking beyond Super Tuesday
— where they are not optimistic of
scoring wins — to the March 17 show
down in Michiganasamake-or-break
state for the conservative TV com
mentator.
Bush’s 67 percent win over two
conservative GOP challengers and
Clinton’s 63 percent dominance of
the Democratic field in South Caro
lina’s primary on Saturday arc likely
to spill over into this week’s Super
Tuesday.
There arc 11 Dcniocratic races and
eight Republican ones on Tuesday,
most of them in the South.
Clinton won Wyoming on Satur
day with 28 percent of the vote. For
mer Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachu
setts narrowly outpollcd Clinton in
Arizona in the overall vote, but Clin
ton won more delegates there.
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What is Super Tuesday?
On Tuesday, eleven states will have primaries and caucuses with 421 Republican and 783 Democratic
delegates at stake, almost one-fifth of all delegates to the national conventions this summer. This early
contest has a large, real and psychological impact with its significant number of delegates.
Why it exists
South's strategy
Organized in 1988, it was the
brain-child of southern states
who wanted greater say
in the nominating
process
Strength In numbers
It was hoped that if they banded
together and voted as a bloc, it would
help candidates favorable to
the south, particularly
moderate and
conservative
Democrats.
Front-loading
Presidential primaries have increased
since 1968. This has shifted the focus
of the nominating process from party
leaders to state-by-state primary
campaigns, allowing early primaries to
give a candidate a winner's image.
How it has affected
elections
Mors front-loading
Candidates must organ
ize and raise enough
money even earlier or
be in danger of being
knocked out early on.
Dscllns of ths dark hors*
A candidate can no longer afford to lay
tow and emerge late in the process as
an acceptable alternative to a front
runner with enemies Jerry Brown tried
this strategy in 1976 and lost to Jimmy
Carter
Lass Influence for later states
States with later primaries may have
no say it a candidate wins enough
delegates for nomination, or is
defeated, before their primary
War for disputed territory continues
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Armenians
and Azerbaijanis battled Sunday lora
third day over Askeran, a town in the
disputed enclave of Nagorno-Kara
bakh. *
Both former Soviet republics again
charged that troops controlled by the
Commonwealth of Independent States
helped the other side. Such accusa
tions repeatedly were denied by the
Defense Ministry in Moscow.
Armenia’s military commissioner,
meanwhile, denied a Russian televi
sion report that his republic had or
dered a general mobilization for mili
tary service of all eligible men up to
age 50.
The two republics have been fight
ing since 1988 over Nagorno-Kara
bakh, an area inside Muslim Azer
baijan populated mostly by Christian
Armenians. Fighting intensified after
the breakup of the Soviet Union anti
grew worse recently, with both sides
making unconfirmed claims of hun
dreds of deaths.
Azerbaijan’s president, Ayaz
Mutalibov, was forced to resign Fri
day by hard-liners who thought he did
not act strongly enough in the con
flict.
The battle for Askeran erupted
Friday when Azerbaijani militants
fought their way into the outskirts of
the town.
The Interfax news agency said
Azerbaijani forces fired dozens of
rockets into Askeran on Sunday.
“There were numerous casualties
and many buildings were destroyed,”
Interfax reported, without providing
a casually count.
The ITAR-Tass news agency said
two other Armenian villages, Karmi
ravan and Shaumyanovsk, were at
tacked Saturday night and Sunday
morning. It also said an Azerbaijani
lank was destroyed near Askeran.
At least 42 people have been killed
in Nagorno-Karabakh since Friday,
Armenian press reports said.
Farkhat Mckhticv, a spokesman
lor the Azerbaijani presidential press
office, described the political situ
ation in Azerbaijan as “chaotic fol
lowing Mutalibov’s resignation. He
said that while Mutalibov was tempo
rarily replaced by parliament chair
man Yagub Mamedov, real power
belonged to Prime Minister Gasan
Gasanov, who has vowed to press the
fight with Armenia.
The parliament is scheduled to
choose a new president Tuesday.
87 people die when ferry sinks off Thailand
Oil tanker slices
passenger boat;
24 survive wreck
SI RACHA, Thailand — An oil
tanker sliced into a ferry crowded
with religious pilgrims before dawn
Sunday, and at least 87 people drowned
when the passenger ship sank, au
thorities said. About two dozen people
were rescued.
Survivors said the ferry’s captain
apparently ignored warning lights
(lashed by the tanker and cut across
its path. Authorities said he was miss
ing.
Maj. Gen. Sathit Chalcrmsuk of
the marine police said the ferry might
have carried 140 passengers but had
no precise figure. Rescue operations
in the nation’s worst maritime disas
ter in modem limes stopped at night
fall and were to resume Monday.
Survivors said most passengers were
asleep when the ships collided in the
Gulf of Thailand. They said many
people were trapped in the lower deck
of the two-deck ferry.
A number of Thai ferries have
capsized while overloaded with local
and foreign tourists visiting offshore
resort islands.
Sea tralTic off the southeastern coust
has increased dramatically in recent
years because of a huge coastal de
velopment plan that includes a large
port, industrial sites and tourist facili
ties.
At one point alter Sunday’s acci
dent, Thai television quoted the
Ministry of Interior as saying 130
bodies had been recovered. But the
ministry later revised the number to
87.
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Many Israeli women, aghast at the
bloodshed and atrocities committed
by their government against the Pal
estinians, arc siding with their Palcs
Thc largest conflict between the
Israelis and the Palestinians is who
has the right to the land, she said.
She told the audience they needed
to pressure the American government
to stop aiding Israel until the occupa
tion is slopped.
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