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Super Tuesday results leave McCain, Bradley struggling
The Associated Press - George W.
Bush accelerated his drive to the
Republican presidential nomination
Tuesday, winning California, New York
and five other primaries as he rose to
vanquish John McCain.
Praising his insurgent challenger,
the Texas governor said, “Soon our
party will unite and turn to the main
task at hand - ending the era of Clinton
Gore.”
McCain won four states Tuesday
but none beyond independent-minded
New England The Arizona senator said
he was going home to consider his fate
and an aide said he could quit the race
as soon as Thursday. If so, it would end
a campaign that had ignited enormous
interest in the GOP primaries.
Forging familiar coalitions on
Tuesday, Bush relied on the party faith
fill while McCain drew from indepen
dents and moderate Republicans.
McCain’s gamble of criticizing conser
vative Christian leaders may have back
fired in key states, while Bush’s visit to
Bob Jones University with a history of
anti-Catholic views seemed to be a ben
eficial campaign issue for McCain in
some states.
In reflective remarks late Tuesday,
McCain told supporters he and Bush
“may meet again,” leaving plenty of
room for doubt. There are seven GOP
contests looming in the next week,
most of them in Bush-friendly territory.
McCain told AP he’ll meet with
aides Wednesday “and talk about our
future,” and two top advisers said his
challenge was futile after losing
California, New York and Ohio, and
they would recommend he throw in the
towel.
In a reflective mood, McCain said,
“We’ve changed the face of politics and
put reform on the agenda.”
In a late-night rally, Bush said, “We
have a national victory. Republicans
and conservatives across American
have said they want me'to lead the
” We’ve changed the face ofpolitics and
put reform on the agenda. Were proud
of what we ve done.”
John McCain
Republican presidential candidate
Republican Party to victory come
November, and I am ready and eager to
do so.”
The governor won California,
Ohio, Georgia, Missouri and Maryland
by double-digit margins - and broke
McCain’s hold in the Northeast with
narrower victories in New York and
Maine.
He also won the Minnesota caucus
es. McCain took Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Vermont as voters in 13 states partici
pated in the year’s largest night of
Republican presidential contests.
Based on partial returns, Bush
picked up at least 362 delegates
Tuesday, pushing his total to 532 of the
1,034 needed to win nomination.
McCain won 120 delegates Tuesday for
a total of 225. Alan Keyes, shut out in
the primaries, won six in the Minnesota
caucuses to increase his total to 11.
With Super Tuesday voting, the
general election began to take shape:
Vice President A1 Gore swept the
Democratic contests, pushing Sen. Bill
Bradley to the brink of withdrawal.
Kosovo violence continues
■ Fight between Serb and
Albanian turns into battle,
leaving several wounded.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA,
Yugoslavia (AP) - A fight between
an ethnic Albanian and a Serb esca
lated into a street battle Tuesday in
which 16 French peacekeepers and
24 civilians were wounded, a further
manifestation of the deep ethnic
hatred dividing Kosovo.
The violence broke out on the
northern side of Kosovska Mitrovica,
forcing U.N. officials to suspend
attempts to register Serbs wanting to
return to their homes on the southern,
ethnic Albanian side of town. Later,
they moved up the divided city’s cur
few by two hours to 8 p.m.
According to witnesses, an ethnic
Albanian identified as Luan Miftari
attacked an unidentified Serb man
with a crowbar in an Albanian neigh
borhood on the Serb-controlled side
of Kosovska Mitrovica.
An Associated Press reporter saw
several Serbs rush to help the injured
man, while others went after Miftari.
In the crush, an ethnic Albanian
opened fire from the backyard of a
nearby house, seriously wounding
one Serb.
“That created panic,” said Lt.
Matthieu Mabin, a spokesman for the
French peacekeepers, who arrived
after the shooting started.
The French troops and police
were running down a narrow side
street, toward the shots, when some
one threw grenades at them.
Medics scrambled to stabilize
one soldier’s leg wound, as another
lay on the ground moaning. Those
who were not hurt in the blasts
dragged injured comrades toward
waiting ambulances.
“Hand grenades were thrown, we
don’t know from whom or from
where ... but it created very many
injured, especially French soldiers,”
Mabin confirmed.
Twenty Serbs, 16 French peace
keepers and four ethnic Albanians
were injured, according to Lt. Col.
Patrick Chanliau, another spokesman
for the French peacekeepers. A 17th
peacekeeper was injured in a separate
incident, he said, but provided no
details.
Four ethnic Albanians were
arrested in the shootings, said
Chanliau.
The number of wounded Tuesday
was the most since Oct. 12, when 33
people were wounded near the bridge
that connects the ethnically divided
neighborhoods.
Three miles away from the fight
ing, peacekeepers escorted 13 ethnic
Albanians to a high-rise apartment
complex in the northern part of the
city, where dozens of others were
repatriated last week, French peace
keepers said. Serbs have consistently
protested the return of ethnic
Albanians to the northern half of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
By late afternoon, a rocket hit one
of the buildings, slamming into the
structure’s seventh floor. No injuries
were reported.
The violence in Kosovska
Mitrovica, located 20 miles north
west of Kosovo’s provincial capital
Pristina, underlines the difficulties
NATO faces in attempting to return
the town to its prewar, multiethnic
status.
^ Hand grenades
were thrown, we
don’t know from
whom or from
where...”
Lt. Matthieu Mabin
spokesman for French peacekeepers
The northern neighborhood was
inhabited by about 3,000 ethnic
Albanians and several hundred Serbs
until unrest early last month caused
everyone to flee the area.
Members of a group of about 50
ethnic Albanians, who said they fled
to the southern side Tuesday, said
Serbs threw grenades at their homes,
moving from one Albanian house to
the next to drive out residents.
NATO-led peacekeepers moved
into Kosovo last June after a 78-day
bombing campaign that ended a year
long Serb crackdown on ethnic
Albanians.
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Clinton promotes
gun control bill
■ President urges unity
between House, Senate
before Columbine anniver
sary.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Looking
to break a stalemate over gun control
legislation, President Bui Clinton
invited members of Congress and the
mother of a slain 6-year-old to the
White House on Tuesday.
“How many people have to get
killed before we do something?” he
asked.
Clinton chided lawmakers for fail
ing to meet to work out the differences
between the House and Senate ver
sions of a juvenile justice bill since last
summer, saying that “the American
people have waited long enough” for
new protections.
He challenged Congress to pro
duce final legislation for his signature
by April 20, the anniversary of the
massacre at Columbine High School
in Colorado.
“I know the gun lobby is cranking
up pressure on Congress again,”
Clinton said. “But when first-graders
shoot first-graders, it’s time for
Congress to do what’s right for
America’s families”
Later Tuesday, Clinton met with
Veronica McQugen. McQueen’s
daughter, Kayla Rolland, was shot to
death in her first-grade classroom last
week, allegedly by another 6-year-old.
“As a parent, my heart goes out to
her,” Clinton said. “And as president,
I’m going to do all that I can do to see
that this doesn’t happen to other chil
dren.”
Key lawmakers left an Oval Office
meeting with Clinton without an
agreement to restart negotiations over
a juvenile justice bill that contains new
measures designed to keep guns out of
the hands of children and criminals.
The White House called
McQueen on Monday to invite her to a
meeting with Clinton after learning
she was in town.
■ Florida
Demonstrators protest plan
to end state affirmative action
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -
About 10,000 demonstrators chanting
“Shame on Bush” jammed the State
Capitol grounds Tuesday, demanding
that Gov. Jeb Bush back off his plan to
ban racial and gender preferences in
university admissions and state con
tracting.
Pouring into Tallahassee from
around the country, the demonstrators
said they feared Bush’s plan to end
affirmative action would erase the gains
blacks and other minorities have made
since the civil rights movement
Bush has put portions of the plan
into effect through executive order, but
other segments still need legislative
approval.
The rally was timed to coincide
with the governor’s State of the State
address and the opening of the legisla
tive session.
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■ Afghanistan
Taliban authorities attempt
to curb drug trade
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The
Taliban authorities burned tons of
hashish and hundreds of pounds of
heroin in southern Kandahar on
Tuesday in an attempt to curb a rampant
drug trade in their war-battered country,
a Taliban spokesman said
The Taliban soldiers set fire to 780
pounds of heroin and 4,400 pounds of
hashish, all of which were confiscated
by the hardline Islamic militia in recent
months, said Mohammed Shakaib by
telephone from Kandahar. The Taliban
religious army controls 90 percent of
Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is the world’s largest
producer of opium - the raw material
used to make heroin. Last year 4,600
tons of opium was produced in
Afghanistan. Some of it was converted
into heroin and some transported else
where for processing.
■ South Carolina
University to allow interracial
dating with parental approval
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -
Students who want to take advantage of
Bob Jones University’s decision to drop
its ban on interracial dating will need a
note from their parents.
Bob Jones III, the school’s presi
dent, announced an end to the ban
Friday. On Monday, he told nearly
4,000 students at a daily chapel service
that they must tell their parents if they
become involved in an interracial rela
tionship.
rarents must send a letter to me
dean of men or women approving the
relationship before the school will
allow it, Jones said. He said at the
chapel service that most people view
interracial marriage as an unwise deci
sion.
The school’s policy was imple
mented in the 1950s to prevent Asians
and whites from dating. Blacks were
not admitted to the school until 1970.
■ California
Two of four missing bags
of Oscar ballots found
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -
Ten mailbags with all 4,000 Oscar bal
lots were missing Tuesday in a real
Hollywood whodunit for Academy
Awards executives, a distinguished
accounting firm and the Postal Service.
Postal workers found two of the
missing sacks in the early afternoon,
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences spokesman John Pavlik said.
They had been hauled from the 90210
post office to a bulk mail warehouse in
South Central Los Angeles.
If all of the ballots aren’t found, the
numbers on them will be invalidated,
and new ones will be printed and
mailed as early as Tuesday night.
