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Nation & World I CUNCH from page A4 “It gets down to family and how lucky we are,” the former president said. Politics runs in both families. Gore is the son of the late Sen. Albert Gore Sr., a critic of the Vietnam War and eaj-ly con vert to civil rights who lost liis Tennessee seat in 1970. The elder Gore once bmggcd that his son was raised to succeed in pres idential Dolitics. Both Gore and Bush campaigned heavily in the six primary states, but had the general election in mind. Polls show the Texas governor is strong in the South. Gore believes that he has a chance to win Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee in No vember. Bush’s brother, Jeb, is the governor of Florida, and Clinton lost the state in 1992 — but pulled off a surprise victo ry in 1996. A recent poll showed the cur rent race tight, and Gore hoped to make inroads with Hispanic and elderly voters. Louisiana has a high population of black voters, who tend to side with De mocrats. And the vice president hopes to carry his home state in November. “It’s not a question of bravado, it’s a judgment that the voters will make,” Gore said. “This is my home.” Democrats have all but conceded Texas to Bush, who won re-election by a landslide in 1998. Mississippi and Ok lahoma are also tough states for De mocrats. The primaries drew loyal Gore and Bush voters, but a few Bradley and Mc Cain backers showed up. “We have to express our thoughts, too, even if Bush will be the nominee,” said Magda Pelias, a McGtin voter from New Orleans. Dan Barr of Florida voted for Mc Cain to send a message to Bush. “He’s got to get a little more broad-based ap peal,” said Biirr, who had supported the Texiui early in the primary process. Graphic Design Position Available Undergraduate student for part-time position or graduate student wanted for assistantship in on-campus office. 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"Her name is her reputation.” Rubin asks Kosovars not to seek revenge j by Danica Kirka Associated Press Gnjilane, Yugoslavia — Stressing that justice is different from revenge, a senior U.S. envoy today urged people in Kosovo to be patient and not seek re dress for wartime grievances. James P. Rubin, the U.S. State De partment spokesman, told reporters at an early morning briefing in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, that Kosovo residents must wait for judicial systems to be put into place, and that violence against Serbs is not the answer. “This is not an excuse to take justice into their own hands,” he said. “It’s a le gitimate point to want justice. But the wheel of justice turns slowly. It’s not go ing to happen overnight.” U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Al bright’s spokesman has been hammering the point at every slop in Kosovo: Eth nic Albanian leaders must end the vio lence. But Monday he also sought to re assure Kosovo’s Serbs that Washington is pushing for a multiethnic Kosovo in which they will have a share. Rubin’s constant drumbeat has only underlined Washington’s anxiety over the continuing attacks on Serbs and oth er minorities in Kosovo — a morass in the making that is threatening the inter national support that ended Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s system atic campaign of repression last year. Rubin was traveling to the south eastern town of Gnjilane today to meet with the local U.N. administrator for the region and be briefed on the tense situ ation along Kosovo’s administrative boundary widt Serbia. He planned to meet with Brig. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military official in Kosovo. Also visiting Kosovo today was Javier Solana, the European Union’s high rep resentative for foreign ;ind security pol icy. Solana was trying to push the unit ed front between Europe and the United States to press ethnic Albanian leaders to 'It's a legitimate point to want justice. But the * wheel of justice turns slowly.’ James Rubin State Department spokesman take charge in stopping the violence. Speaking Monday in Gracanica in i western Kosovo, Rubin told an Albanian crowd, “You are now free of the op pression from Belgrade. But with that freedom comes responsibility to ensure that coexistence can exist in Kosovo.’ * The crackdown against the province’s majority ethnic Albanians ended when Yugoslav troops withdrew following a 78-day NATO air campaign. Ethnic Al banians then began revenge attacks against Serbs. Despite Washington’s considerable leverage with the ethnic Albanians, it was unclear whether the province’s fac tious leadership understood the message. Hashim Thaci, the political leader of Kosovo’s rebels during the war, called Rubin “a friend of Kosovo” and said “we accepted his statements as advice from a friend.” There was no unequivocal pledge to stop the violence, much of which is be lieved carried out by former Kosovo Litm eration Army fighters who were Thaci’s allies in the war against the Serbs. Many ethnic Albanians think the struggle with the Serbs won’t end until all Serbs have been forced out and Kosovo becomes an independent Albanian state. At the United Nations, Russia’s for eign minister has urged his counterparts1 in the seven major industrialized nations to help prevent Kosovo’s tensions from spilling over into southern Serbia. Keep Smilin’* It’s Wednesday!! 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