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Bush sweeps three primaries
Gore defeats Bradley in Washington;
McCain could still win 'beauty pageant'
by Ron Fournier
Associated Press
Arlington, Va. — Texas Gov. George W. Bush
swept past Sen. John McCain in three Republican
presidential contests Tuesday, buoyetl by the reli
gious right and party faithful in Virginia’s battle
ground to fatten his delegate count in advance of
next week’s 13-state “Super Tuesday” showdown.
In the Democratic campaign. Vice President A1
Gore beat Bill Bradley in a popular-vote Washing
ton state primary that yielded no delegates. The de
feat was a severe blow for the former New Jersey
senator, who had invested heavily in the political
“beauty pageant” in hopes of rejuvenating his sag
ging campaign.
With the see-sawing Republican presidential race
exposing a rift between the party’s conservative and
moderate wings, Bush said McCain paid a high price
for attacking evangelical leaden.
“The voten of Virginia rejected the politics of
putting one religion against another,” the Texas gov
ernor said. “We are expanding our base without de
stroying our foundations.”
Their bitter fight also was waged in North Dako
ta and \Vbshington state, but Bush won the bulk of
the day’s delegates, 56; in the capital of the old Con
federacy. He easily defeated McCain in North Dako
ta’s caucuses to pick up 14 additional delegates to
take a narrow lead in the race toward the 1,034 —
the number needed for the GOP nomination.
Bush won the majority of Republican voters in
the chase for Washington state delegates. McCain,
however, could still win the non-binding popular
vote that included independent and Democratic vot
ers.
Sounding tired but defiant, McCain told back
ers in Bakersfield, Calif., that Bush was guilty of de
ploying negative tactics. “My opponent wants to be
president in the worst way. I want to be president
in the best way,” he said. With the pink evening sun
dipping beneath an American flag serving as his back
drop, McCain said, “We’re still the underdog. Don’t
forget it. But we’re going to win Tuesday.”
The Texas governor won because Republican
voters overwhelmed independents and Democrats
who crossed party lines in support of McCain, a
warning sign for the Arizona senator as he pre
pares for New York, California, Ohio and 10 other
states conducting GOP contests Tuesday. “I’ve proven
I can bring Republicans out in big numbers,” Bush
told The Associated Press.
Backed by Gov. James Gilmore’s potent polit
ical machine, the Texan outspent McCain in the
state.
One day after McCain labeled certain evangel
ical leaders “agents of intolerance,” religious con
servatives accounted for 20 percent of the Virginia
vote. They backed Bush 8-to-1, prompting the gov
ernor to say his victory puts the GOP “one step clos
er to having a united party.”
McCain’s best showing was in the Washington
suburbs, the most moderate region in the state, ac
cording to surveys of Virginia voters conducted by
Voter News Service, a consortium of The AP and
Primaries see page as
First-grader kills
classmate at school
by Randi Goldberg
Associated Press
Mount Morris Township, Mich.—
In a school shooting made more shock
ing by the age of the youngsters involved,
a 6-year-old boy pulled a gun from his
pants and shot a little girl to death Tues
day in front of their horrified first-grade
teacher and classmates.
The boy fired a bullet from a .32-cal
iber gun inside Buell Elementary near
Flint, 60 miles from Detroit, striking 6
year-old Kayla Rolland in the neck. She
died a half-hour later.
The boy, whose name wasn’t released,
was taken into the custody of the state
child welfare agency after the shooting.
Prosecutors didn’t say how they think
the boy got the gun, although they said
it had been reported stolen in December
and was in the boy’s home.
■ Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur
Busch said there might have been “some
sort of scuffle or quarrel on the play
ground” between the boy and girl a day
earlier.
He said five pupils were in the
classroom preparing to leave for the li
brary when the shooting occurred. The
teacher was standing in the doorway when
the boy, who had the gun tucked in his
pants, pointed it at a pupil, Busch said.
The boy then turned toward Kayla and
fired the only bullet in the gun, the pros
ecutor said.
The boy ran into a bathroom and
dropped the gun into a trash can, Busch
said. School personnel held the boy un
til authorities arrived.
A girl who identified herself as a class
mate, 6-year-old Haili Durbin, told The
Associated Press that Kayla had yelled at
the boy because he spit on her desk and
stood on it. She was interviewed with her
father present.
School Superintendent Ira A. Ruther
ford told reporters at the police station
that the girl’s version of events was in
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McCain more popular, but
Bush still leads in GOP
by Will Lester
Associated Press
Washington—John McCain would
be thriving these days as a presidential
candidate in the general election. His
problem is that he’s still running against
George W. Bush for the Republican
nomination.
McCain has grown more popular
with the public as Bush’s popularity
has slipped, polls suggest.
Two-thuds of Americans have a fa
vorable view of McCain, the Arizona
senator, according to a CNN- USA To
ohy-Gallup poll released Monday, while
about a fifth have an unfavorable view.
Just under six in 10 said they have a fa
vorable view of Bush, the Texas gov
ernor, while a third view him unfa
vorably.
McCain’s popularity has been ris
ing in the Cm-USA Today-Gallup
and ABC News- Washington Post polls
in the past few months, while Bush’s
popularity has been slipping. McCain’s
favorable rating has gone up 24 per
centage points in the ABC-Post poll to
60 percent, while Bush’s has slipped
20 points in that poll to 49 percent.
McCain is about 15 percentage
points ahead of the leading Democra
tic contender, A1 Gore, in a possible
November matchup among registered
voters in the two polls. Bush is about
6 points ahead of the vice president
among registered voters in both polls.
Bush still leads McCain, however,
in the voting preferences of Republi
cans and those leaning Republican
nationally, 57 percent to 33 percent in
the CNN-l/SA Today-Gallup poll.
McCain’s unexpectedly strong chal
lenge to Bush has raised public inter
est in the campaign, according to
Thomas Patterson, acting director of
the Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy. The center
is conducting an ongoing voter survey
that has found interest in the election
surging, with more than half of
Americans paying at least some atten
tion to the campaign and a quarter pay
ing close attention. Before the New
Hampshire primary on Feb. 1, six of
10 said they were paying little or no
attention.
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News Briefs
■ Diallo supporters,
police scuffle during
protest in Philadelphia
Philadelphia (AP) — A crowd of pro
testers angry with the acquittal of four
white New York City police officers in
the shooting death of an unarmed black .
man scuffled with police and blocked
rush-hour traffic Tuesday.
The scuffle broke out as police offi
cers tried to clear a path for the car of
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne
Abraham. Protesters surrounded her car.
The protesters were marching in support
of Amadou Diallo, the West African im
migrant who died a year ago in New York
when he was struck by 19 bullets in a bar
rage of 41 police gunshots. The offi
cers, who were acquitted Friday, testified
they thought Diallo was reaching for a
gun when they confronted him in the
vestibule of his Bronx apartment build
ing. Diallo actually was clutching his wal
let.
Meanwhile, Diallo’s parents, their at
torneys and the Rev. A1 Sharpton plan to
meet with Department of Justice officials
in Washington on Thursday to discuss the
possibility of civil rights charges being
brought against the officers.
■ Canada demands
that Cuban diplomat
leave country
Toronto (AP) — The United States
forcibly expelled him and the Canadian
government is demanding that he leave
the country, but alleged Cuban spy Jose
Imperatori remained inside the Cuban
embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday.
An embassy receptionist, Jordan Arias,
said Imperatori was in good health but
was starting to show signs of weakness
from not eating solid food since Saturday
to protest his expulsion from the United
States.
Imperatori’s two-day Canadian tran
sit visa expired Monday night, making
him an illegal alien, Canadian officials
said.
■ Fifteen-year-old
sentenced to life
in Maryland deaths
Upper Marlboro, Md. (AP)—A
15-year-old boy, believed to be the
youngest person ever tried for two sep
arate murders in Maryland, learned Tues
day that he would likely spend the rest
of his life in prison.
“In both of the deaths, both juries
agreed,” Prince George’s County, Md.,
Circuit Court Judge Graydon S. McKee
said before sentencing Travis Lionel Savoy
to life in prison, plus 40 years for crimes
committed within two months of the
ninth-grade dropout’s 14th birthday.
Savoy was sentenced to life in prison
plus 20 years for the robbery and murder
of Javier Eduardo Castillo, 33, a pizza de
liveryman gunned down moments after
he made a delivery to a Bladensburg apart
ment where Savoy was a guest.
■ Kathleen Willey
supports McCain
Richmond, Va. (AP)—Kathleen Wil
ley, who said President Clinton made a
sexual advance toward her at the White
House in 1993, said she supports Repub
lican Sen. John McCain because she needs
a hero as her president.
“He has integrity. He’s honest,” Wil
ley said Tuesday night at a McCain rally
here. “You just know you’ll always get
the truth from him.
“I think we need a hero. I do — 1
need a hero again as my president,” she
said.
■ Study finds 200,000
have compulsion for
online sex material
New York (AP) — At least 200,000
Internet users are hooked on pom sites,
X-rated chat rooms or other sexual ma
terials online, researchers say in one of
the first studies to estimate the number
of “cybersex compulsives.”
“This is a hidden public health haz
ard exploding, in part, because very few
are recognizing it as such or taking it se
riously,” the researchers said.
The study, conducted by psycholo
gists at Stanford and Duquesne univer
sities, appears in the March issue of the
journal Sexual Addiction and Compul
sivity.