Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nation & World Michigan from page A5 calls to voters to make inflammatory re ligious attacks. % The negative talk didn’t turn off vot ers, who showed up in far higher num bers than in 1992 and 1996. Bush drew fewer bedrock Republi cans than in South Carolina. McCain’s mixed breed of voters—blue-collar eco nomic conservatives, union members and baby boomers—voted in far larger num bers. His coalition was reminiscent of the voters who put Ronald Reagan into the White House then became a battleground for Democrats and Republicans in sub sequent presidential elections. McCain did better among veterans than in South Carolina, and appeared to have greater success convincing voters %hat he was the race’s true reformer and straight talker. In addition to his success among Democrats and independents, Mc Cain earned the support of an over whelming percentage of new voters, two thirds of the people who had never before participated in a GOP primary. In the Michigan battleground, Mc Cain supporters said they liked him be cause he stood up for his beliefs. In exit polling, they split their top issue between Social Security and moral values. Bush voters were younger, more af fluent, anti-abortion and strongly con servative. They cited his conservative values as their top reason for voting for him. Religious right voters also preferred Bush. Four in 10 voters said both candidates attacked unfairly, though the bickering seemed to leave Michigan voters with a more negative impression of Bush than McCain. That’s a reverse of polling from South Carolina. Bush campaigned side by side with Engler, who appeared to draw some back lash from voters—of those who said En gler’s support affected their vote a great deal, two-thirds actually voted for McCain. Bush, a front-runner backed by the GOP establishment, tried to use his ad vantages of money, organization and en dorsements to weaken McCain’s candi dacy Tuesday, two weeks away from their March 7 showdown, when Republicans in California, New York and 11 other stales in every region of the country vote. Following contests in tiny New Hampshire and Delaware, remote Alas ka and conservative South Carolina, Michigan tested the candidates’ ability to appeal to a large, diverse electorate. Looking ahead to the March 7 con - tests, Bush was flying to Missouri and California after the voting in Michigan. He has operations in all 13 states that vote that day. Lacking Bush’s money and organi zational strengths, McCain plans to pin point his political activities. California and Ohio will be major McCain targets, as he tries for come-from-behind victo ries in two states that award all their del egates to the winner. Calm from page A5 draw instead of risking a confrontation.” Violence escalated Monday after up to 10,000 ethnic Albanians managed to breach French positions on the ap proach to the Ibar River bridge. More French troops rushed to the bridge and began firing tear gas. As the crowd surged onto the bridge, British and Canadian soldiers backed by Warrior fighting vehicles tried to push back the ethnic Albanians. Many pushed through the soldiers and swarmed atop vehicles, waving red and black Albanian flags. French and Danish troops positioned behind the British and Canadians at the middle of the bridge then moved forward, firing tear gas. “The key thing really was to prevent an escalation in which somebody fired on the other one,” said German Gen. Klaus Reinhardt, the commander of the embattled Kosovo Force. “It would have been a disaster. My soldiers were very reasonable. They used just the amount of power needed and did not overreact.” Rising oil prices give Iraqis small windfall by Leon Barkho Associated Press Baghdad, Iraq —A handful of pro tein biscuits seems like too little, too late for Zakiya Abdulrahman’s family. Nonetheless, the biscuits are a wind fall for the pregnant woman with five children whose family’s income is less than $1 per day — and they’re possible only because of a rise in world oil prices. The costly oil means Iraq is earning more money under the U.N. oil-for-food pro gram designed to let it skirt trade sanc tions for the good of its people. Recently, that has meant a small im provement for Abdulrahman and nearly 5,000 other malnourished mothers and children in the low-income Baghdad neighborhood of Mashahda: six high-pro tein biscuits a month per person. That’s in addition to free rations of rice, flour, legumes, sugar and tea distributed under an earlier phase of the oil-for-food pro ject. But Abdulrahman and her five chil dren are still in dire need. Abdulrahman’s husband earns his tiny income selling groceries from a cart. Her 11 -month-old boy weighed 13 pounds—the norm for that age is almost 20 pounds — when a community care volunteer put him on an electronic scale. In the past three months, regular pow er cuts in Abdulrahman’s neighbor hood have lasted as long as 16 hours a day. Broken pipes inundate some streets with sewage. Children scour garbage heaps in search of used tin cans and bot tles they can sell to recyclers. Such misery exists despite Iraq’s oil reserves, and despite the fact that the price of the crude basket of the Oigani zation of Petroleum Exporting Countries has risen from below $10 a barrel in 1998 to around $25 today. While the increase has boosted Iraq’s revenues, it isn’t doing much to help the country’s poor because much of the mon ey is either taken away or blocked by the United Nations, Iraqi officials say. Iraq isn’t allowed to freely sell its oil on world markets under sanctions im posed to punish it for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The sanctions can’t be lifted until U.N. inspectors certify that Iraq is not producing weapons of mass destruc tion. Iraq has barred inspectors for the past year. The sanctions have crippled Iraq’s economy. But in December 1996, the oil-for-food exception was instituted. At first, it allowed Iraq’s government to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months on the condition that the pro ceeds are used to buy food and other es sentials for ordinary Iraqis. The financial ceiling was raised to $5.2 billion in 1998, and a December 1999 U.N. resolution removed it altogether. All told, Iraq has sold about $22 bil lion worth of oil under the program, of ficials estimate. So far, though, the gov ernment has earmarked only $30 million of the* proceeds to combat widespread malnutrition among children and preg nant and nursing mothers. 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