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Clinton says final farewell to Americans
■The outgoing president's televised
speed) thanked the people for eight
years in the White House.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—Now that he’s said his
goodbyes at the landmarks of his political
career, President Clinton is bidding adieu to
the American people.
Clinton planned to closet himself in the
White House on Thursday to prepare for a
nationally televised speech that aides billed
as largely a thank you to Americans who
sent him to the White House twice and regu
larly told pollsters they approved of his per
formance, even at his lowest moments.
A Clinton aide, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Clinton’s remarks Thursday
night would have Ha little bit of an edge” to
them, containing, among other things, an
appeal for Americans to reject an isolation
ist stance and remember U.S. responsibili
ties as a world leader
Clinton and President-elect Bush have
disagreed over the use of U.S. forces in
Europe. While Clinton has dispatched
troops aggressively to Kosovo and the
Balkans, Bush promised to be more circum
spect about sendingsoldiers abroad.
Thursday’s speech caps the long, slow
farewell that Clinton began in December
with speeches on foreign, domestic and
economic policy. Last week, he gave an exit
address in New Hampshire, where he resus
citated his flagging 1992 campaign with his
famous “last dog dies” speech, and this
week paid final visits to Chicago, his wife
Hillary’s hometown, and Michigan.
On Wednesday, in his last official road
trip, Clinton spent a few nostalgic hours in
Arkansas, his home state Tears welled in his
eyes as he stood in die state House chamber
- where he was sworn in as governor five
times - and thanked lawmakers for a life
time of political lessons that carried him to
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A moving van is parked outside the South Portico of the White House on Thursday. President Bill Qinton is moving out of the presidential residence, while President
elect Georae W. Bush is movina in.
the White House and kept him there for
eight years.
“I know perfectly well I wouldn’t be pres
ident if it hadn’t been for the people of
Arkansas,” he said later to a crowd gathered
in a hangar at the Little Rock airport.
"Through all the storms and all the sun
shine,” he said, serving as president was one
of his greatest delights.
Arm-in-arm with daughter Chelsea,
Clinton stood on the comer of St. Vincent
and the new President Clinton Ave. He visit
ed an ailing monsignor at a local hospital
and mused about the small niceties of pri*
vate life - driving his own car again, maybe
even fixing up his long-stored Mustang.
“I’ve got a daughter about to graduate
from college and a wife going into the
Senate," Clinton said. “It seems to me one of
the things I’ll have to do is go to work, which
won’t do me any harm.”
I'm sorry Ms Jackson...
Jesse admits his affair
■The civil rights leader
disclosed that he has a child
with another woman.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO—The Rev. Jesse
Jackson withdrew from public
view at a potentially critical hour
for the civil rights movement
Thursday after disclosing that he
had an extramarital affair that
resulted in the birth of a daugh
ter a year and a half ago.
A steady stream of support
ers - including Jackson’s son,
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. - visited
with him at his Chicago home,
some carrying Bibles.
But the only word from
Jackson was a statement issued
in the early morning hours
revealing the affair.
“I fully accept responsibility,
and I am truly sorry for my
actions,” he said.
Spokesman John Scanlon
said Jackson issued the state
ment to get out in front of antici
pated tabloid reports. Scanlon
said the child was the result of an
affair Jackson had with a woman
who worked in the Washington
office of Jackson’s civil rights
group, the Rainbow-PUSH
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In his statement, Jackson
said he would temporarily step
aside from public life to spend
time with his family.
The statement came amid
the Senate confirmation hear
ings for John Ashcroft, President
elect Bush’s nominee for attor
ney general - a choice
denounced by Jackson and other
civil rights leaders. Jackson has
demanded that Democratic sen
ators vote against Ashcroft
Jackson’s staff said he has not
yet decided whether he will
attend a rally Saturday in Florida
to protest voting irregularities he
says disenfranchised blacks dur
ing the presidential election.
Jackson, a Baptist minister
and one-time aide to the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., said he
has provided “emotional and
financial support” since her
birth.
He said he knows friends and
supporters will be disappointed
in him and asked for their “for
giveness, understanding and
prayers.”
Jesse Jackson Jr. issued a
statement appealing to the pub
lic to “understand and respect
our privacy.”
Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley called it “a personal thing
with his wife and his family” and
would not comment.
That sentiment was echoed
by many in the city that has
become the base of operations
for Jackson's civil rights work.
“It’s his business. We’re only
human,” said Jamese Duckett, a
26-year-old Chicagoan who is a
driver for Cook County.
"Everybody’s allowed to make
mistakes. At least he ‘fessed up
and took responsibility.”
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Californians face more blackouts
THE ASSOCIATED rncoo
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
California cut off power to hun
dreds of thousands of people for a
second straight day Thursday as
lawmakers rushed to enact emer
gency legislation to buy electricity
at taxpayer expense and keep the
lights on.
Californians stocked up on
flashlights, generators and fire
wood as the northern half of the
state was struck again. The rolling
blackouts stretched from the
Bakersfield area to Oregon, 500
miles away.
The outages lasted about two
hours and affected up to 1.8 mil
lion homes and businesses at any
one time. Power managers
warned that more blackouts were
possible by nightfall.
Thousands of people saw
everything from their lights to
their heaters, computers and
bank machines abruptly switched
off. Schools in the San Francisco
Bay area lost power, and traffic
lights went out by 10 a.m.> causing
gridlock and fender-benders.
Sacramento also was affected.
The blackout order could be
expanded to the south, said
Stephanie McCorkle, a spokes
woman for the Independent
System Operator, keeper of the
state’s power grid.
7f really feels like deja vu today. We are living
hour by hour here.”
Stephanie McCorkle
Independent System Operator spokeswoman
“It really feels like deja vu
today,” she said. “We are living
hour by hour here.”
The blackouts came two
hours earlier than those on
Wednesday and affected twice as
many people at any one time.
They were prompted by the loss of
thousands of megawatts from the
Northwest, where power-generat
ing dams were low on water. One
megawatt is enough to power
1,000 homes.
Northern California has faced
the outages first because of con
gestion in transmission lines that
send power up from Southern
California. The southern half of
the state has not had the same
problems importing energy.
Utilities refused to disclose which
neighborhoods were affected, cit
ing security concerns.
Hospitals and airports were
among die essential public servic
es exempted from the outages.
“We were doing peoples’
color, we were doing peoples’
shampoo and sets,” said Masako
Kondo, owner of Masako’s Hair
Design in Palo Alto, which lost
power around 10:30 a.m. She sent
customers home with wet hair
and asked them to come back
later.
There had been signs it was
going to be another bad day. The
ISO declared a Stage 3 alert just
one minute after midnight as
power reserves dipped toward 1.5
percent
The first blackouts in the
months-long energy crisis came
Wednesday in northern and cen
tral California. Regulators came
within 1,300 megawatts - enough
to power 1.3 million homes - of
ordering the first statewide black
outs since World War n.
While Southern California
was spared, power was shut off to
as many as a half-million cus
tomers at a time, affecting San
Francisco, Silicon Valley,
Sacramento and Modesto.
Gov. Gray Davis ordered the
state to start buying power from
wholesalers and provide if to
power-short and financially
strapped utilities.
UNL renews Grambling program
ALCORN from page 1
Senior communications
major Scott Worrall, who also
attended Alcorn, found the rural,
close-knit community of the uni
versity to be welcoming.
"I think everyone down there
was very accepting of us,” he said.
“The social life revolved more
around going and talking to peo
ple in their rooms. Everybody
knew everybody.”
Robert Butler, an associate
professor of English at Alcorn,
said he missed that personal asso
ciation when he taught at UNL in
the fall of2000, though he said he
found his time here to be well
spent.
“Because (the campus) is so
much larger, you feel a bit more
anonymous,” Butler said.
“Otherwise, everyone was
extremely friendly It was a mar
velous experience.”
Junior mortuary science
major D.C. McCauley is attending
Grambling next fall. He said he
hoped to take classes that would
provide a more diverse education
because they were taught from a
different world view.
All of the previous exchange
participants encouraged students
to take advantage of the program.
“I think it's one of the best
opportunities that the University
of Nebraska offers,” Gartner said.
“I wish more people knew about
it”
Worrall said the experience
was comparable to a study
abroad without leaving the coun
try.
“You can’t get the experience
“Being a Caucasian
female, you don’t
always get a chance
to be a minority in a
situation."
Erin Gartner
semester exchange student
anywhere else,” he said. “I came
back a little bit more open-mind
ed. You break down a lot of mis
conceptions.”
Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs James Griesen said the
exchange cost no more than a
semester at UNL. Students inter
ested in the program should con
tact the department of graduate
studies.
Senators look to shore up elections
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The new hours would apply
to areas in the Central and
Mountain time zones. Results
would not be released until both
areas had closed their polls.
“It will benefit a majority of
people," Brashear said.
David Shively, Lancaster
County election commissioner,
though, said the bill’s costs and
problems outweigh the benefits.
He said it would cost his
office thousands of dollars to
stay open for an extra hour.
Moreover, he said, most poll
workers are elderly, and requir
ing them to work an extra hour
in an already long day could
simply be too much.
Shively also said local gov
ernments would have to pick up
the extra costs of a decision
made by the state.
“Basically, it's an unfunded
state mandate,” he said.
The Associated Press
■ Congo
Slain president's son becomes
temporary replacement
KINSHASA, Congo — Two
days after President Laurent
Kabila was gunned down in his
presidential palace, Congo’s gov
ernment acknowledged
Thursday that he had died, end
ing uncertainty over his fate but
leaving this deeply troubled
nation fearful over its future.
Kabila’s son, Joseph, has
already been thrust into power as
his temporary replacement, but
the question of a permanent suc
cessor could bring more turmoil
in a nation already split by civil
war and wrecked by poverty.
Joseph Kabila, who was army
chief under his father, was shown
on state television broadcast
meeting with foreign ambassa
dors. He made no statementand
despite reports he had been
wounded in the shooting -
appeared uninjured.
The government announce
ment - after two days of insisting
Laurent Kabila was wounded but
alive- shed little light on the pres
ident’s death.
■ Philippines
Filipinos rally for President
Joseph Estrada's resignation
MANILA, Philippines—The
clamor for President Joseph
Estrada’s resignation swelled
Thursday as tens of thousands of
Filipinos, linked arm-in-arm,
called for his ouster in a demon
stration that stretched from a
popular revolution monument to
the financial district
Cars honked and confetti
rained down on some 100,000
protesters who filled Manila
streets around a monument to
the uprising that forced out the
late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Similar rallies were reported in at
least 17 other Philippine cities a
day after Estrada's impeachment
trial was suspended.
All 11 men prosecuting
Estrada on corruption charges
quit this week after being denied
access to bank records they
claimed would prove his guilt.
They said a fair verdict was
impossible because so many of
the Senators were in the presi
dent's pocket
■ Kenya
IMF delays loan payment
to Kenya over failed reforms
NAIROB —The International
Monetary Fund delayed a loan
payment to Kenya because the
government has failed to make
promised reforms, a senior IMF
official said Thursday.
The latest interruption in pay
ments comes just six months after
the IMF lifted a three-year sus
pension on the loan package and
agreed to resume lending to the
economically troubled East
African nation.
Samuel Itam, senior IMF rep
resentative in Kenya, said an $8
million loan due in December -
the second installment of a three
year, $198 million package -
would be delayed until certain
government reform targets were
met Itam did not elaborate about
the reforms.
■ Washington, D.C.
Ashcroft's past vote bothers
Democrats, dvil rights groups
A black Missouri judge said
Thursday that John Ashcroft “seri
ously distorted my record” to
block the judge’s appointment to
a federal court in what Senate
Democrats claimed was a bid for
political gain.
“The question for the Senate
is whether these misrepresenta
tions are consistent with the fair
play and justice you all would
require of the U.S. attorney gener
al,” Missouri Supreme Court
Judge Ronnie White told the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Now President Bush’s choice
for attorney general, Ashcroft was
a Missouri senator seeking re
election when he engineered the
party-line 1999 defeat of the fed
eral nomination for White, the
first black judge on Missouri’s
highest court. That vote, the first
defeat of a district court nomina
tion on the Senate floor in 40
years, became a focus of Demo
crats and civil rights groups
opposed to Ashcroft’s confirma
tion.