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Mike Fiala/Newsmakers ARIZONA SENATOR and Republican presidential hopeful John McCain waves to the press after casting his ballot in the Arizona GOP primary at the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on Tuesday. McCain takes two primaries DETROIT (AP) - John McCain thumped George W. Bush in a two state sweep Tuesday night, rallying a “new McCain majority” of indepen dents and Democrats in Michigan and winning his home state of Arizona to seize momentum for a two-week blitz of Republican primaries. “As I look more electable, we’ll start drawing more Republicans,” McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press. “What I believe we are assembling is the new McCain majority.” McCain received just one-fourth of die GOP vote in Michigan. Humbled by defeat,.the Texas governor said, “This is a marathon, and I’m going to be in it all the way to the end - and some primaries you win and sometimes you don’t.” McCain’s is the latest victory in a see-sawing Republican nomination race. The Arizonan won New Hampshire’s leadoff primary in a landslide, lost the follow-up show down in South Carolina and won Michigan by a narrow margin. In each case, Bush and McCain forged mirror-image coalitions: Bush with an overwhelming majority of bedrock Republicans and McCain reaching outside the party for a simi lar-sized force of Democrats and independents. Operi to all comers, Michigan’s primary actually drew more non Republicans than Republicans. Bush supporters bitterly dis missed McCain’s victory. “John McCain isn’t party-build ing, he’s party-borrowing,” said three term Michigan Gov. John Engler, who accused tne senator of “renting Democrats” for the night. Engler had promised to carry Michigan for Bush and took blahie for the defeat. —In Michigan, with 80 percent of the precincts reporting, McCain had 560,684 votes, or 50 percent, and Bush had 494,731 votes, or 44 per cent. Former ambassador Alan Keyes had 5 percent. —In Arizona, with 69 percent of the precincts reporting, McCain had 161,770 votesl or 60 percent, and Bush had 96,473 votes, or 36 percent. Keyes had 4 percent. McCain won all of Arizona’s 30 delegates with his victory there. His statewide victory in Michigan earned him 10 at-large delegates, increasing his overall total to 54. Shuttle returns with planet maps CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six returned to Earth on Tuesday with more than a week's worth of radar images that will be transformed into die finest maps of. the planet. Commander Kevin Kregel guid ed the shuttle down through a clear sky moments after sunset. Gusty winds at the runway had forced him to make an extra swing around Earth, delaying the homecoming by an hour and a half. During their 11 -day voyage, Endeavour’s astronauts worked in round-the-clock shifts to keep two large radar antennae running - one in the shuttle cargo bay and one on the end of a 197-foot mast. The method is expected to pro duce 3-D maps of Earth’s peaks and valleys. The radar mapped 43.5 million square miles of Earth’s terrain at least twice, just 2.5 million square miles shy of NASA’s original goal. The surveyed land stretched as far north as British Columbia and as far soiltiras€~ape Horn and represented three-quarters of the world’s terrain. A faulty thruster on the end of the radar mast forced the crew to use extra shuttle fuel to steady the mast, the longest rigid structure ever deployed in space. To save fuel, the astronauts had to cut short their mapping by 13 hours. NASA’s first order of business involved unloading the more than 300 digital tapes containing all the radar data.The tapes will be flown to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Scientists will keep the originals in humidity- and temperature-con trolled chambers. “We’re really going to baby these things, obviously, because they’re our crown jewels,” said Michael Kobrick, a scientist in charge of the project. i a fr $ fr** <r% IJ| i JMI §■« - [ 11 ■» SL^»#nt £ i 1 jfaaa 1% ___ Rain Mostly cloudy high 58, low 41 high 63, low 47 Iran’s parliament hears reformist liberal agenda • . ' '. ri ■ The plan, which expands press freedoms, will meet opposition by conservative council. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - With all indications that hard-liners will lose control of Iran’s parliament, the tri umphant reformists presented a leg islative agenda Tuesday with a priori ty on expanding press freedoms and lifting a ban on foreign television broadcasts. But it remained to be seen whether hard-liners will find a way to block those initiatives. The conserva tive Guardians Council can veto all legislation passed by parliament, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the main backer of the conservative camp, has final say in all matters. Iranians expressed their desire for greater political and social freedoms in Friday’s election for the Majlis, or parliament, by overwhelmingly choosing members of reformist groups like the Iran Islamic Participation Front, led by President Mohammad Khatami’s brother. The reformist coalition has won 141 seats, including 109 by the Participation Front, and appeared poised to have a majority in the 290 Editor: Josh Funk Managing Editor: Lindsay Young Associate News Editor: Diane Broderick Associate News Editor: Dane Stickney Opinion Editor: J J. 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Mohammadreza Khatami, the head of the Participation Front, said he is confident that haird-liners will not risk angering a tnajority of Iranians by using the powers they still have to block reforms. “What is important is the rule of law and judgment of the people, and the election clarified the desires of people,” he said. Iran’s remarkably free press and live broadcasts of parliamentary pro ceedings also could keep conserva tives from resorting to heavy-handed methods. Hard-liners have said little as election returns were counted, but at least one conservative lawmaker in the departing parliament indicated that they will accept defeat graceful ly “We will not change our princi ples and positions, but it is natural that we should reconsider our poli cies and methods,” Mohammadreza Bahonar was quoted as saying by the independent newspaper Iran Vij on HP_J_ x ucauxxy. But hard-liners had been far from resigned as the public mood became increasingly clear in the months before the election. The hard-liners - who control the judiciary and other key institutions, such as radio and television stations and the armed forces - shut down outspoken news papers and jailed reformists. In July, police and vigilantes raid ed a Tehran University dormitory after students protested the closure of a moderate newspaper. The raid, which left one person dead and 20 injured, triggered the worst unrest in Iran in two decades. Rogue Intelligence Ministry agents believed to be hard-line loyal ists also have been arrested in the 1998 killings of dissident intellectu als. - ■ Washington Clinton’s plan may cut hospital medical mistakes WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bill Clinton wants to require fuller accounting of deadly mistakes occurring daily in America’s hospitals, but skeptical senators said Tuesday his plan lacks details and the money to make it work. “This is a worthy endeavor,” Clinton said as he predicted bipar tisan support for a national plan to cut medical mistakes. At the same time, he tried to convince doctors and hospitals that reporting serious problems need not lead to more malpractice lawsuits. Clinton wants a nationwide system to report and analyze med ical mistakes, similar to the air lines’ reporting program for avia tion accidents and safety risks. ■ Washington Sexual slavery considered favored illegal trade activity WASHINGTON (AP) - With as many as 2 million women worldwide forced into sexual slav ery, the sex trade seems to have replaced narcotics as the favored illegal trade activity, White House officials said at a Senate hearing Tuesday. Harold Koh, assistant Secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, said inter national criminals are moving away from “guns and drugs” to marketing women..,.. u “There are weaker restraints and growing demand,” Koh told the Senate Foreign Relations sub committee on Near Eastern and Southern Asian Affairs. ■ Missouri Auto theft leads to death of child dragged by seat belt INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - A child who became tangled in a seat belt outside his mother’s car when the vehicle was stolen died Tuesday after being dragged for miles at speeds up to 80 mph. The boy was dragged for five or six miles along the highway until the driver pulled onto another road, police said. Three other vehicles followed behind. When the suspect stopped at a red light, the three vehicles blocked him in. The man tried to flee but was wrestled to the ground by the motorists. The boy, whose name was not released but whom police said was about 6 or 7 years old, had been left in the running vehicle while his mother ran into a store to get a sandwich. ■ Florida Florida votes to ban college race, gender preferences TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida’s inde pendently elected Cabinet voted Tuesday to ban race and gender preferences in college admissions, a major part of the governor’s plan to end affirmative action. The Republican governor and the Cabinet voted 4-2 to stop con sidering race and gender as factors in admission. Bush’s new “One Florida” plan promises that stu dents who graduate in the top 20 percent of their high school class and complete a college preparato ry curriculum will get into at least one of the 10 state universities.