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Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky NewsDgest Tuesday, February 14,1995 Page 2 Opposition party wins in Mexico’s elections GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexico’s largest opposition party on Monday celebrated the biggest elec toral victory of its history, which analysts said could end 66 years of single-party rule in the country. The National Action Party claimed it won the governorship of the state of Jalisco, control of the state legisla ture and 90 of 124 city halls, includ ing Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city. “This triumph shows it is possible to change the government... through the force of votes and not through the force of bullets,” said Felipe Calderon, secretary-general of the center-right party, known as the PAN. Sunday’s vote was a vindication of President Ernesto Zedillo’s prom ise of fair elections and greater de mocracy in Mexico. It also came three days after Zedillo sent troops to crack down on leftist rebels in the southern state of Chiapas, breaking a year-long truce. With 40 percent of the gubernato rial vote counted, the PAN’s candi date, Alberto Cardenas, had 54.46 percent and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate, Eugenio Ruiz Orozco, had 35.9 per cent. Eight other parties trailed far behind. Cardenas, 36, is a former mayor of Ciudad Guzman and a university pro fessor. “We accept the results. ... We know the vote did not favor us,” said Rafael Gonzalez Pimienta, state presi dent of the governing party, known as the PRI. In the past, the PRI had contested claims of opposition victory at the polls and had admitted losing only two statewide elections in its history — both to the PAN. For years, presidents have been promising to clean up Mexican elec tions, but opponents have continued to accuse the PRI of using fraud, force and public funds to maintain its hold on power. The last election before Zedillo took office in December was marred by widespread fraud allegations. Militants within his party rebelled against Zedillo’s efforts to solve the dispute in January, causing the presi dent to appear weak. “It is very important that did not happen in Jalisco,” said Jaime Sanchez Susarrey, a political colum nist and professor at the University of Guadalajara. Gore defends surgeon general pick NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Striking back Monday in the row over Presi dent Clinton’s surgeon general nomi nee, Vice President A1 Gore called Dr. Henry Foster Jr. the victim of an anti-abortion campaign to intimidate Congress. “We’re not going to let the extremists win,” he declared. But critics of the Tennessee obste trician showed no sign of easing up. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in Georgia, “I think he’s going to be very hard to confirm. I think it’s going to be a very embarrassing set of hearings.” In Washington, White House press secretary Mike McCurry acknowl edged, “We have our work cut out for us.” President Clinton left the strong talk to his officials, saying only that the controversy was not distracting I-1 him from other work and that he expected Foster to be confirmed if he is considered “by a fair-minded Sen ate.” Senate hearings are expected next month with a confirmation vote to follow. While most nominees are held from public, view until their confir mation hearings, Foster has defended himself in a medical school speech,a newspaper article and a national tele vision interview. Gore stepped up the White House campaign to emphasize the doctor’s efforts to reduce teen-age pregnancy among inner-city youths. Foster’s “I Have a Future” program teaches self esteem and urges youths to abstain from sex. Fewer unwanted pregnancies would mean fewer abortions, Gore said. Asked for his position on abor tion, Foster said, “Safe, legal and rare.” Foster has said he performed 39 abortions and supervised a drug trial in which 55 more women ended their pregnancies after moving to Tennes see in the 1970s. The White House angered some lawmakers, including Democrats, by twice understating the number of abortions performed by Foster. The nomination ran into more trouble when it was disclosed that Foster had performed hysterectomies on severely retarded women in the 1970s. Backed by independent doc tors, the White House said the prac tice was accepted medicine at the time. News... _^ in a Minute Tour plane crash kills 7 TUSAYAN, Ariz. — A plane flying tourists to the Grand Canyon apparently lost an engine and crashed while trying to return to the airport Monday, killing seven of 10 people aboard, authorities said. ; The three other passengers were being treated for serious injuries at the scene two miles northeast of Grand Canyon Airport, said Coconino County Sheriffs Sgt. Raoul Osegueda. The plane, a Piper Navajo, belongs to Las Vegas Airlines, a tour company that specializes in scenic flights over Grand Canyon National Park, Osegueda said. It was believed the flight began in Las Vegas and had completed a tour of the park, said Fred O’Donnell, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles. The plane took off at about 3:35 and almost immediately reported trouble, O’Donnell said. “The pilot reported having lost an engine and declared an emer gency, and we believe was attempting to return to ... Grand Canyon,” O’Donnell said. I here have been numerous crashes of tour planes around the Grand Canyon in recent years, and Congress has imposed restrictions on air tours over the canyon, in part due to safety concerns. On the lookout for cheatin’ hearts . CHICAGO — Cheatin’ hearts are big business on Valentine’s Day. On the day lovers are tradition-bound to show their devotion, private investigators are kept busy with requests from people trying to find out if their spouses are spending Valentine’s Day in somebody else’s arms. “Three businesses make money off Valentine’s Day - retail stores, the flower industry and detectives,” said Miami private detective Carlos Armenio Fernandez. “To us, this is like Christmas.” The first clues may turn up months before Valentine’s Day — unusual phone calls, plans for an out-of-town trip, the purchase of an intimate gift the spouse never receives. It’s the Valentine’s Day rendezvous itself that offers the chance to catch the unfaithful partner in the act. 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The survey, to be released today, found 75 percent of Americans didn’t believe they could catch a sexually transmitted disease, even though doc tors diagnosed 12 million new cases every year. “The message is: Know enough to assess your risk before you decide not to worry” about sexually trans mitted diseases. “It’s a serious prob lem,” said Ethel Klein of EDK Asso ciates, which conducted the survey for pharmaceutical maker Burroughs Wellcome Co. The survey marks the release of a new booklet, developed by a coali tion of medical organizations, with explicit instructions for detecting the often-hidden symptoms of sexual dis eases. The government says one in four Americans may get a sexually transmitted disease, which left un treated can cause infertility or even death. In the survey of 1,000 adults, men reported more sex partners: 51 per cent claimed six or more, compared with 25 percent of women. And 28 percent of men reported at least 11 sex partners, compared to 10 percent - of women. The survey concluded that 62 per cent of the men polled and half of the women are at moderate or high risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease.