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_ _Nation & World _ Bradley: 'I'm the one to win against Republicans' by Sandra Sobieraj Associated Press St. LOUIS, Mo.—It’s a whispered fear among Democratic activists, seeming ly supported by early polls: Republican front-runner George W. Bush could trounce Vice President A1 Gore. In steps Bill Bradley. The former New Jersey senator on Thursday emphasized his appeal among independents and Republicans, contending that makes him the more electable De mocrat in a general election campaign. In a news conference, Bradley also took his most direct shot yet at the Clin ton administration’s “misdirected and ineffective” U.S.-Russia policy, in which Gore has played a uniquely active role. That foreign policy is under increasing scrutiny as investigators sort through al legations of money laundering and cor ruption in the American-subsidized Russ ian government. The United States under Clinton Gore, Bradley said, “became more mis sionaries for international capitalism than we became the undisputed giant of the . world, acting out of our own national in terest.” r>_ii_i _ . ___f_*_ uuvju^y oj./v7ivc ai a pi coo cum^ic/iivc/ in his hometown of Crystal City, Mo., before boarding a campaign bus tour up the Mississippi River and through Mark Twain’s Hannibal hometown, before landing in Iowa. At the band stand on the main street of Keokuk, a couple of hundred greet ed Bradley’s caravan. “We’re making some progress, some real progress. Peo ple are coming forward,” Bradley beamed. Retired teacher Jan Celania called it a good crowd for the city in Iowa’s south eastern comer, but said Bradley still has work to do. “I don’t think there are a lot of people who’ve jumped on his band wagon yet, because we’re just now learn ing about him,” Celania said. On this three-day fall kickoff swing, which the campaign hoped would raise Bradley’s national profile, aides took heart that their web site on Wednesday logged seven times the normal daily num ber of hits. They collected $14,000 in Internet donations. In the parking lot of St. Louis’ Kappa Alpha Psi chapter, a black civic and educational fraternity, Ernestine Bradley said her husband’s team revels in its underdog status. “It energizes us to have to work that much harder,” she said. Earlier, the candidate fielded a re porter’s question about his electability. “When I’m out campaigning in restaurants and hotels, in airports, peo ple come up to me and say, ‘I’m inde pendent. Or, I’m a Republican. I will vote for you. I would never vote for him,”’ Bradley said. “I take it to mean that in a general election, it’s important to get indepen dents and Republicans if you’re going to win.” Democratic primary voters next year are going to have to make a judg ment “as to who they think would be able to win,” Bradley concluded. His electoral analysis spoke to the anxieties among some Democrats that Gore, the party establishment’s favorite for the nomination,, would have a tough fight against Bush, if the Texas gov ernor wins the Republican nomination. Those fears are backed up by national polls showing Bush would roundly beat Gore. In a mid-August CNN/USA To day/Gallup poll, Bush led Gore among independents, 54 percent to 39 percent, when matched against each other. But when Bush is matched against Bradley, they divide the independent vote almost equally, 48 percent for Bush and 47 percent for Bradley. In the latest New Hampshire poll re ported by the Boston Globe and WBZ TV last weekend, Gore and Bradley were in a statistical tie, largely based on Bradley’s appeal among independents who say they are likely Democratic pri mary voters. ■■Enszfl Fire-spitting woman dances topless on power-line pole Associated Press Seattle—It wasn’t your standard week day traffic jam when drivers slowed to watch a fire-spitting woman dancing top less atop a high-voltage electrical tower beside a freeway bridge. It wasn’t meant to be. Ara Tripp, 38, of Olympia, told The Seattle Times she planned the stunt for weeks to protest discrimination against women and laws that allow men to take their shirts off but not women. Tripp was a man before undergoing a sex-change operation. Tripp climbed the 180-foot tower Wednesday morning, took off her shirt and began dancing, occasionally taking swigs from a vodka bottle, spitting out the liquor and setting it aflame. Traffic on a nearby interstate bridge over the Lake Washington Ship Canal slowed to a near-standstill during the hour or so Tripp remained on the tower. She had made a practice climb of the tower several nights earlier. Still, it was “an extremely dangerous, hazardous sit uation,” said Larry Vogel, spokesman for Seattle City Light. The utility cut electricity to 5,000 homes and businesses to protect Tripp from being zapped by the 120,000 volts of juice flowing through the lines the tow er supports. Tripp was arrested for investigation of criminal trespass and indecent expo sure, each carrying a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $5,000 fine, Best said. She was released after posting $690 bail and faces a Sept. 22 court date. “I’ll plead guilty,” she said. “It’s pret ty obvious.” Tripp has a wife, whom she married when she was still a man, strongly dis approved of the plan but was out of town Wednesday. Berlin from page 5 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said the move front comfortable Bonn in the west to the formerly divided city of Berlin, deep in the east, would help focus the government’s attention on the lingering divides. He did not speak at Tuesday’s cere mony, which was attended by parlia mentarians from around the world, in cluding U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hasten. The ceremony was the first time par liament met since completing the move from Bonn. It will hold its first regular session in the Reichstag on Wednesday. Indonesia from page 5 U.N. compound. It was not known whether anyone was injured. “We hid behind a big rock because we couldn’t go any further. There was so much shooting. But others got away when the soldiers came up the hill," said a teen age girl who identified herself only as Shanti. Martin said the Indonesian army promised to help relocate the remaining refugees to a new camp at Dare, about 6 miles south of Dili. East Timor plummeted into lawless ness after Saturday’s announcement that an overwhelming majority of voters ap proved independence. The announce ment triggered a wild and violent back lash from the militias opposed to independence. The father of rebel leader Jose Alexan dre “Xanana” Gusniao, Manuel Gusmao, was killed by pro-Jakarta loyalist mili tias, according to a report by the Por tuguese news agency Lusa that was con firmed by a Gusmao aide. Gusmao, widely expected to become the first president of an independent East Timor, has taken refuge in the British Embassy in Jakarta after being freed from a prison on Wednesday. Refugees continued to pour into neighboring West Timor, escaping the vi olence. About 6,000 people were crammed into one camp just outside the provincial capital, Kupang, badly straining resources. “Hundreds of people may have been killed,” refugee Yossmina Katu said. “There were lots of areas of violence.” Evident in the camps were swag gering members of the Aitarak militia, one of the most feared among the anti independence groups that notched up their violence after results were an nounced Saturday. The militia mem bers wore T-shirts emblazoned with their group’s name. West Timor is the half of the island that has been anchored in Indonesia since it gained independence from the Nether lands in 1949. The west has been fertile ground for recruiting militiamen to en force Jakarta’s will on the east. U.N. officials estimated that up to 200,000 people — a quarter of the ter ritory’s population — have fled in the past several days, and there are wide spread reports of mass killings. At a meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, ministers from the Americas, Asia and Europe criticized Indonesia for failing to stop the terror in East Timor but stopped short of endorsing a peace keeping mission to the province. In Jakarta, anti-government students clashed outside the parliament with ri ot police. Four protesters were injured. Thousands in Europe he the knot on 9/9/99 by Burt Herman Associated Press Berlin—There goes the excuse for for getting your anniversary. Thousands of couples across Eu rope and the world chose what they be lieve is the lucky day of Sept. 9,1999,9 9-99, to tie the knot on Thursday. Hundreds of others lined up to get letters postmarked with the date and mothers asked doctors to time their ba bies to be bom at 9:09 — and nine sec onds. There was even talk of a “9999” bug, an old code used in computers to signal the end of an operation. The Bank of Japan went so far as to add $2.7 billion to the economy in case foreign banks needed cash in an emergency. There were no reports of problems, however. According ro ureeK mytnoiogy, me number nine symbolizes stability, courage and tenacity. In the Muslim faith, there are 99 names for Allah. The Thai word for nine, “kao,” sounds the same as the word for “progress,” so many Thais view nine as a lucky number. And foiget about 8-8-88 or 7-7-77. Thursday was even better: there are five nines in the date — 9-9-1999. There were also more ominous tones to the day. For weeks, there have been persistent rumors that activists in Myan mar might be plotting a 9-9-99 uprising like the 8-8-88 protests that almost top pled the country’s military government in 1988. Myanmar’s military regime posted riot police around the capital, Yangon, and Thai troops on the Myanmar border were put on alert. Yangon was reported ly quiet, however. Elsewhere, weddings were the order of the day. Gretna Green, the Scottish village synonymous with weddings because it was once a haven for eloping couples, was booked up with couples wanting to marry on 9-9-99. Fifty couples got their way — but an other dozen had to wait until the 10th because registrars, church ministers and photographers in the English border town couldn’t handle any more. “It’s more like Valentine’s Day than a weekday in September,” said Alaster Lynn of the Gretna Wedding Bureau, which helped oiganize 16 services. Lynn had a theory about the date’s significance that had nothing to do with luck: “I think today is particularly pop ular among men who might otherwise foiget the date of their anniversary,” he said. fifafw Chi Omega Welcomes Our 1999 New Member Class! 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