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Clinton brashes off attack, sweeps primaries
NEW YORK- Front-runner Bill
Clinton swamped Jerry Brown in
Kansas and was the projected winner
in the brutal New York primary as he
bid Tuesday to dispel voter doubts
about his candidacy and gain a firm
grip on the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Campaign dropout Paul Tsongas
watched the returns, gauging Clin
ton’s strength and mulling a decision
on whether to re-enter the race.
President Bush was the Republi
can winner over Patrick Buchanan in
Kansas, and a sure winner in Wiscon
sin and Minnesota. With New York’s
100 delegates already in his pocket,
Bush held 876 of the 1,105 delegates
needed to secure renomination.
Clinton was gaining 52 percent of
the vote in Kansas with 31 percent of
the precincts tallied. Tsongas, Brown
and an uncommitted line on the ballot
were closely bunched in second place,
far behind.
Less than 1 percent of the pre
cincts had reported from New York
and Wisconsin. Clinton had a small
lead in the early going.
With Clinton bidding to regain his
footing after two recent defeats, CNN
and WNBC said he would win New
York as well, the crown jewel of a
four-state primary night. Wisconsin
and Minnesota also held Democratic
primaries.
Explosion
wallops
Texas town
BRENHAM, Texas — An explo
sion packing the power of an earth
quake ripped open an underground
gas pipeline Tuesday, killing at least
one person, flattening nearby mobile
homes, and shaking buildings more
than 140 miles away.
Cars were thrown from nearby
roads. Leaves were ripped from trees
whose trunks were blackened. Live
stock lay dead in fields. At least 16
people were injured, said Mike Cox,
Department of Public Safety spokes
man.
“It looks like a tornado came through
except there was a path of fire,” said
Ron Hausseckcr, emergency manage
ment coordinator for Washington
County.
At least one resident said pipeline
workers had earlier warned residents
to turn off appliances because of a gas
leak.
The pipeline carried liquefied pe
troleum gas, often called LP gas, said
Department of Public Safely spokes
woman Laurcen Chcmow.
The explosion occurred in a rural
area seven miles south of this eastern
Texas town of 12,000. It rattled homes
and braidings as far away as Galveston,
more than 90 miles away, and Vidor,
140 miles to the cast.
It registered 3.5 to 4.0 on the Rich
ter scale, or as strong as an earth
quake that could cause slight to
moderate damage, Rice University in
Houston reported.
The only confirmed death was that
of a 6-year-old boy who was blown
out of a flattened mobile home, au
thorities said. Rescuers searched
damaged homes in the area for more
victims.
“We had windows shaking, pic
tures falling; off the wall. Our phones
and electricity went out immediately,”
said Andrea Allen, who lives nearby.
“It was worse than any earthquake
I’ve ever been through,” she said. “I
used to live in California, and the
sound ... it was like intensified thun
There were 362 Democratic dele
gates at stake T uesday .Clinton began
the day with 1,082, compared to 166
for Brown. It takes 2,145 to win the
nomination. •
Most Democratic voters respond
ing to network exit polls said they
wanted another candidate in the race.
CNN reported. It said 60 percent in
Wisconsin and Kansas, and 66 per
cent in New York were dissatisfied
with the field. In New York, a quarter
wanted Tsongas back and a third
wanted Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Regardless of how they voted, 70
percent of the Democrats in New York
and Wisconsin said they agreed with
Brown’s criticisms of the political
system, and in Kansas it was 60 per
cent.
“This is the people’s campaign,”
said Brown. “There is only forward
movement. *
The voters offered up fresh evi
dence of dissatisfaction with the
choices allowed them.
“I wrote in Ross Perot,” said Paige
Anderson, a 24-year-old Minnesota
voter. “I’m completely dissatisfied
with everyone else and he seems to
represent the view of the middle,class.”
Perot, a billionaire Texan, is mull
ing an independent candidacy that
could change the dynamics of the fall
campaign between Bush and his
Democratic rival.
der that just kept going and going and
shaking at the same lime.”
The 6-inch pipeline was owned by
Coastline Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidi
ary of Houston-based United Texas
Transmission Co., said Gary Garri
son, a spokesman for the Texas Rail
road Commission, which regulates
the state’s petroleum industry.
The pipeline fed an underground
storage well in neighboring Austin
County operated by Seminole Pipe
line Co. of Tulsa, Okla., Garrison
said.
He said the pipeline was last in
spected Aug. 8, and no problems were
found.
The National Transportation Safety
Board sent investigators to Texas.
The team, headed by board member
James Kolstad, will try to determine
the probable cause of the accident.
Shortly before the explosion, pipe
line workers warned residents to turn
off appliances, said Mitchell Hall, 31,
who was admitted to a hospital.
“There was gas floating around,”
he said. “It looked like fog outside....
Everything around me just exploded.”
“It was almost like you hear these
planes, when they come over and
break the sound barrier. It was for an
extended period of time, about 15-20
seconds,” said Charles Moser, pub
lisher of the Brenham Banner Press.
Trinity Medical Center in Bren
ham reported treating 16 people, in
cluding three suffering serious bums
who were flown to hospitals in Hous
ton.
Houston’s Hermann Hospital re
ceived four patients, including three
women in critical condition, said
spokeswoman Lisa Fuglaar.
Votes D&egatesT ** I __Votes Delegates
Clinton 393,890 101 Clinton 46,300
Tsongas 279,649 76 Brown 45,790 -
Brown 252,402 67 Tsongas 32,240
Other 45,877 0 Other 8,651
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___'_Votes l i Votes Delegates
Clinton 220,402 35 Clinton 81,319 27
Brown 203,346 29 ! ■IpiDngas 24,174 6
Tsongas 128,992 18 Uncommitted^?), 950 1
Other 17,633 0 Brown 20,976 2
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Source: reeults from AP Brian Shetlito/DN
Study shows bedding cause of SIDS
LOS ANGELES — A study sug
gests ordinary bedding materials may
have suffocated many babies whose
deaths were blamed on “crib death,”
scientists said Tuesday.
“Perhaps one in four of sudden,
unexplained infant deaths may be
explained by exhaled carbon dioxide
being trapped around the baby’s face
by bedding such as pillows, comfort
ers and foam beds,” said Dr. James
Kemp, a pediatrician at Washington
University School of Medicine in St.
Louis.
Babies whose deaths were blamed
on the mysterious Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome, called SIDS or crib death,
should be investigated as possible
suffocation victims if they were found
face down, said Dr. Bradley Thach, a
Washington University pediatrician
who conducted the study with Kemp.
Kemp presented the findings in
Anaheim during the annual meeting
of the Federation of American Socie
ties for Experimental Biology.
SIDS kills about 7,000 infants
annually in the United Stales. Many
possible causes have been proposed;
none have been proved.
Thach and Kemp said studies around
the world indicate at least one-fourth
of presumed SIDS victims were found
face down in bedding.
In their study, Kemp and Thach
made rabbits breathe through a model
of an infant airway pressed against
bedding materials on which infants
died. That test and a new mechanical
lest suggested five types of bedding
can suffocate infants by trapping
exhaled carbon dioxide.
The types of bedding were a syn
thetic-filled adult pillow, a 3 1/2
inch-thick foam couch cushion, a 3
inch-thick foam pad covered with a
comforter, a sheepskin sold as an infant
bed and a soft infant bassinet cushion
covered by a blanket.
Last summer, the New England
Journal of Medicine published a study
in which Kemp and Thach used rab
bits to show infants could suffocate
on polystyrene bead-filled, beanbag
cushions made for babies.
The U.S. Consumer Products Safety
Commission earlier recalled 950,(XX)
such cushions, which had been blamed
for suffocating 35 infants, spokesman
Ken Giles said.
Giles said the new study “is inter
esting and of concern” because the
agency “wants to team if additional
SIDS cases might be infant suffoca
tion with consumer products.”
The commission received reports
of more than 250 infants suffocating
on adult or youth mattresses or water
beds during uffocating on adult or
youth mattresses or waterbeds during
1985-90, the latest available figures,
Giles said. Some got trapped between
a mattress and a wall, others suffo
cated when sleeping adults rolled onto
them and some died face down.
The agency issued a safety alert
last year warning parenLs: “Never leave
infants on adult or youth beds, whether
mattress type or waterbed. Place in
fants in a crib that meets the federal
safety standards, and industry volun
tary standards for cribs and has a
tightfitting mattress.”
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Arafat’s plane missing in storm
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A jet carry
ing PLO chief Yasser Arafat disap
peared in a sandstorm 15 minutes
before it was to have landed in Libya
on a flight from Sudan, officials in his
office in Tunis, Tunisia reported.
“We’re trying to find him now,”
said Bassam Abu-Sharif, Arafat’s chief
adviser, speaking when the plane was
more than seven hours overdue.
He appealed to France, Italy, Brit
ain, the United States and Egypt “to
help with all possible means to locale
the aircraft.”
Abu Sharif sounded distraught and
refused to answer further questions.
Other sources reached at the office
of the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion chairman said 12 people were
aboard the aircraft. They included
three crew members and a team of
bodyguards and administrative assis
tants.
No other PLO official was on the
flight from Khartoum, capital of Sudan,
the sources said.
The sources said the plane was
expected to land in Sarra at 8:30 p.m.
ami take off a little while later for
Tunis.
It disappeared IS minutes before
its scheduled touchdown while over
flying al-Kofra oasis, 70 miles from
Sarra, said Libya’s Voice of the Greater
Arab Homeland said, quoting the
Libyan news agency JANA.
Sarra lies 150 miles northwest of
the Sudanese border and about 900
miles southeast of Tripoli.
Palestinian sources in Tripoli said
Libyan rescue planes had gone out to
search for Arafat’s plane.
President Bush, returning to the
White House Tuesday night from the
Kennedy Center, was asked if he had
heard any late news about Arafat.
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