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Clinton sweeps South;
Bush blanks Buchanan
By the Associated Press
Bill Clinton won an unbroken string
of Southern landslides Tuesday, brush
ing past Paul Tsongas to establish his
front-runner credentialsfin the Demo
cratic presidential race'
President Bush notched an eight
state Republican shutout of Patrick
Buchanan. Bush
emerged from
Super Tuesday
with half the dele
gates needed to
secure renomina
tion and the Re
publican establish
ment was suggesting — without suc
cess — that Buchanan give up the
fight. “When it’s over, it’s over,” said
Republican Senate Leader Bob Dole.
Clinton had a third of the delegates
needed on the Democratic side and a
full head of steam for Midwest prima
ries next week.
On the busiest night of the primary
season, Bush won from Boston to
Austin, and six states in between.
Buchanan’s protest vote dwindled
somewhat from earlier elections and
Bush picked up more than 65 percent
of the GOP vote in each slate.
Buchanan said he had ‘miles to go
before we sleep,” and then went to
bed in Dearborn, Michigan. The can
didacy of David Duke proved incon
sequential.
Clinton piled up Southern margins
so lopsided that Tsongas was left
limping as the primary calendar turns
to Illinois and Michigan.
Clinton won twice as many Super
Tuesday delegates as Tsongas and
Hexed muscle in the key states of
Florida and Texas. The Arkansas
governor was piling up margins of 65
percent or more in the popular vote in
Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, and the Mis
souri caucuses.
Florida was the bitterest Demo
cratic battleground, and even there
Tsongas could capture only 34 per
cent of the vote.
In Florida, Clinton won 87 dele
gates and 51 percent of the vote while
Tsongas won 58 delegates and 34
percent. Jerry Brown gained three
delegates and 13 percent.
Tsongas won at home in Massa
chusetts and in Rhode Island, and in
Delaware’scaucuscs. He bravely told
supporters, “We’re on our way to the
White House, folks.”
Jerry Brown, the third Democrat
H Super Tuesday Winners
As of 11:00 p.m. EST
rrTop candidates
Democrats ^Hkk Republicans |
TOTAL CANDIDATE DEL. TOTAL CANDIDATE DEL.
PRIMARIES DEL. W Wmm WON DEL. (W) Winner WON
Florida_148 Bill Clinton (W) 87 97 George Bush (W) 97
Louisiana_60 Bill Clinton (W) 59 32 George Bush (W) 26
Massachusetts 94 Paul Tsongas (W) 88 38 George Bush (W) 26
Mississippi 39 Bill Clinton (W) 39 33 Georoe Bush (W) 33
Oklahoma_45 Bill Clinton (W) 38 34 George Bush (W) 34
Rhode Island 22 Paul Tsongas (W) 13 15 George Bush (W) 101
Tennessee 68 Bill Clinton (W) 56 33 George Bush (W) 221
Texas 127 Bill Clinton (W) L96 |l21 George Bush (W) |l2i|
TOTAL CANDIDATE DEL.
CAUCUSES DEL. (W) Winner .WON __
Delaware 14I Paul Tson0as (W)| 5 I— :- I ~~
Hawaii 20 N/A_ _0 — . —
Missouri | 71 Bill Clinton (W) 43 — | _” | —
AP
still standing, held out lew hopes for
Super Tuesday and look his icono
clastic campaign ahead to Michigan.
His best showing was 19 percent in
Rhode Island with Hawaii caucuses
still underway.
“Paul Tsongas is a very tenacious
candidate and should not be underes
timated,” Democratic party chairman
Ron Brown said in an interview'. “I vc
always been in favor of an early
nominee and it seems to me that we
still have a good chance of achieving
that goal.”
Exit polls indicated Clinton’s sup
port crossed racial and ethnic lines in
l
ihc South, and he racked up large
margins among black and Hispanic
voters. Despite lingering controversy
Over draft status in Vietnam, he won
handily among military veterans,
according to a Cable News Network
analysis.
In the Super Tuesday races, Clin
ton won 427 delegates. Tsongas gained
206, and Jerry Brown got 24. Twenty
five were were uncommitted. Clin
ton now has 702.25 total delegates;
Tsongas has 343.25 and Brown has
80.25. There arc 4,288 delegates to
the Democratic National Convention.
2,145 arc needed to win the nomina
tion.
Ships evade navy
WASHINGTON — A North
Korean cargo ship suspected of
carrying Scud-C missiles for Syria
or Iran eluded U.S. warships in the
region and slipped into the Iranian
port of Bandar Abbas, the Penta
gon acknowledged on Tuesday.
“We did not encounter the ship,”
Defense Department spokesman
Pete Williams told reporters. He
said U.S. naval vessels, nad they
come upon the ship, would have at
least challenged its movements and
queried its contents.
“I can’t say precisely why we
didn’t see it all the time.”
Williams argued that the search
for the cargo vessel Dae Hung Ho
was not the “highest priority” for
Navy vessels in the region, which
are focused on barring shipments
lo and from Iraq, not Iran.
The spokesman said a second
freighter, the Iranian-flagged Iran
Salaam, was hailed by the USS
Tngcrsoll early Tuesday in die nonh
em Arabian Sea. He said it too has
been monitored by the U.S. fleet
because of its suspicious contents.
The sh ip declared its cargo to be
steel and drilling materials, and
that it also was headed for Bandar
Abbas, Williams said.
If either ship had sailed toward
Iraq, he said, the U.S. Navy would
have “taken other action,” Wil
liams said.
The Korean ship took a circui
tous route or hugged the coastline
off the strategic Strait of Hormuz
to reach the southern Iranian port,
Williams said. It arrived Monday.
Iraq asks U.N. for relief
UNITED NATIONS — Iraq
pleaded Tuesday for the United Na
tions to lift trade sanctions it contends
have contributed to
the deaths of thou
sands of people by
cutting off essen
tial food and medi
cine.
Saddam
Hussein's top dip
lomat. Tariq Aziz, insisted Iraq had
met the most important of its obliga
tions underGulf War cease-fire terms
and accused some nations of keeping
sanctions in place for purely political
reasons.
A statement prepared by the Secu
rity Council president contains 15
pages of charges that Iraq has failed
to comply with U.N. orders to destroy
its terror weapons. A copy of the
statement, to be delivered at Wednes
day’s public council session on Iraq,
was obtained by The Associated Press.
Diplomats said Iraq apparently was
seeking a partial lifting of the sanc
tions, in proportion to how much it is
obeying the Security Council's cease
fire terms.
The French, British, C.S. and
Russian ambassadors said Iraq must
meet all its obligations before sanc
tions can be lifted. “There is no v\a\
for a compromise,” Britain'" Ambas
sador David Hannay told reporters.
The Security Council was not
expected to even consider A/i/'s
request until a review of the sanctions
later this month.
Smiles haunt surgeon
CINCINNATI — A surgeon is
being investigated for allegedly draw
ing “happy faces” on patients’ sex
organs during surgery.
Dr. Glenn D. Warden, chief of
staff at the Shnners Burns Institute, i,s
accused of drawing with a surgical
marker on the penises of two patients
and on the lower abdomen of a female
patient, Gene Braccwell, chairman of
the Shriners Hospital organization,
said Monday. Hospital officials said
they confirmed only one case.
Warden could not be reached for
comment.
Andy Ellis, 26, who joined Braccw
ell at a news conference, said the
drawing lilted his spirits after several
operations for burns suffered over
half his body in an auto accident in
1983.
The complaints against Warden
were made by staff, not patients, said
Newton (’. McCollough III, hospital
director of medical affairs.
Warden will continue his duties
until an investigation by the slate
chapter of the American College of
Surgeons is complete, McCollough
said.
Last spring Warden apologized lor
carving his initials on the skull ol a
severely burned 9-monlh-old infant
during surgery. Some type of carv ing
was necessary to improve blood flow
and help skin grow, McCollough said.
I *—- • r
Nuclear cuts likely at summit
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Rus
sia's foreign ministerTuesday said
he would consider a ban on the
world’s most dangerous nuclear
weapons as part of an arms control
agreement being readied for a June
summit in Washington.
Andrei Kozyrev’s declaration
on MIRV multiple warhead mis
siles could accelerate missile cut
backs on both sides. He will meet
Wednesday with Secretary of State
James A. Baker III. They are in
Brussels to attend an East-West
NATO meeting.
“We’ll certainly discuss th£
preparations for the summit meet
ing,” Kozyrev said at a news con
terencc. “We will try to achieve a
mutually acceptable compromise.”
Baker hopes to elicit from
Kozyrev, a generally willing part
ner in arms reductions, a proposal
to ban missiles with multiple war
heads.
So far, even while swapping
far-reaching-plans with the Bush
administration, Moscow has shied
away from the touchy issue of its
powerful force of long-range mis
siles with more than one warhead.
Kozyrev signaled this may be
the occasion.
“We have to bring our positions
closer together, including the elimi
nation of MIRVed missiles,” he
said.
The statement suggested Russia
has its eye also on banning the
long-range multiple warhead mis
siles carried aboard U.S. subma
rines.
Until now, Russia has been
unwilling to consider a ban on its
deadly land-based long-range mis
siles that carry up to 10 warheads
each.
President Bush has proposed
slashing 50 percent of the long
range missile warheads that would
remain on both sides under last
year’s Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty, or START.
But Baker intends to tell Kozyrev
that Bush would consider going
further — if the Russians agrecti to
scrap their land-based MIRVs.
Noriega opts not to testify in trial,
says government withheld evidence
MIAMI — Manuel Noriega’s de
fense rested its 5-week-old ease Tucs
day without calling the ousted Pana
manian leader to the stand, closing
instead with a blast
at the government
for allegedly with
holding evidence.
The prosecution
later began its re
buttal case.
Noriega told
U.S. District Judge William Hoev
eler during a short in-chambers hear
ing he was voluntarily exercising his
right not to testify.
“I would not want the prosecution
and the lawyers present here to inter
pret (this) as thinking I am hiding
anything,” Noriega said. “I have suf
ficient documents and sufficient rcc*
ollcction to answer the questions I
have heard in the months I have been
sitting here.”
He complained his testimony would
be restricted, “not to include political
matters, issues of war and the inva
sion.”
Defense attorney Frank Rubino later
told reporters the judge’s rulings on
classified matters prevented Noriega
from telling the whole truth about his
drug and racketeering indictment.
In court, the defense rested after
presenting 18 witnesses, including a
CIA agent and several top Drug En
forcement Administration officials.
Another defense attorney, Jon May,
said he believed the government was
still withholding key evidence.
“We don’t believe they have turned
over all that is important or relevant,”
May told the judge. “I don’t trust
them — the government has not acted
in good faith.”
He cited the belated discovery of a
secret joint DEA-Panamanian money
laundering investigation, “Operation
Negocios,’ as well asCIA documents
that appeared to support Noriega’s
version of an alleged bribe attempt by
the Medellin cocaine cartel and a trip
to Cuba.
The judge said he would lake the
U.S. attorney’s word that the govern
ment has handed over all relevant
items.
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