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Show I IJ1~ THE NATION Clinton outlines new tax plan U.S. DIGEST imposc<l nn the tl~nth o[ a £armer or S!1'3ll business owner. ELIZABETH DOLE MAY C ONSTOER .I\ :WOO PRESIDEN TIAL BID: llub Onie stll l thinks about living in the Wlmc Hou$C. Nnw, though, he'll be glad w do it ns /irst husband. Dole says ,n thcl11tcs1 Issue of TV Guide that he's cnc0tunging wife E.Lizabctl, to rondcr a r rc~lt!.:ntlal hill in 2000, " She did such a got1d iob at the ctinV(:Oltl)n. A i:on,I ll.......JL-.:L.J campaigning iob. She h3S lots of fricnJ s Clut Elizal>ei)1 Dole 1h~'l'C. It's the new millcm1ium. C ot a woman secrct:1ry of state It's only on.c: n1on.: step now. It's goin& ro happen,'' Doh.: sa)t:,, AUTHORITIES FL\lD THTRD PIPE BOM.B IN T HREE DAYS: l'olicc evacuated a California neighborhood s utTOun<ling the home of a federal employee who received n pip~ bom b in !he ma d Satun b y, th-, third such ,lcvi.ce fm md in the.San Diego arc,1 in. as many days. T he bomh tLid nor go of! when tb<.: m311 ,,pcned the pack age, soid Sgt. Tom Kcbhsh ''When he opened it, he tcttli2C<l h was n pirw b,nnh and threw it down on the btd, 11 he said. T he pnckngc c-0nrnined rwo pipe bombsJ both of which wer~ disanncd w ithout any ,njurtes. Fcdcra ,•!lencrns ,n California were placed 0 11 ,tl~rt. GROl/ NOHOG SAYS BREAK OUT Tfffi BERJ°l'\UDA SHORTS: Put those winter clo,hes n,vny. If you bclic,,c in a certain 11roundho~ guru, you won't need rhein Pun,csurnwncy Phi l didn' t sc~ hisshndow yes.tenfa y, indicating spring as righ1 armmd th~ comer. Legend has it thnt ,f the r c.nns~ lvanin gmundlmg sees his shadow, six more ,,·eeks of winter Jny ahead. Abou1 25,000 people gnthered in a dc:iring to wan for the R.ctircn1cnl announcen,eat The audience was t,v1cc the size 11fl»st year's crowd - n new record Accoun,s, d1 mina,es the capital ga iiis rnx for mos1 home sales and reduces the c.-starn ta~ ---11 Puuxs11t,,\mey Phil THE WORLD~ , ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WORLD DIGEST Candidate seeks to block Bhutto from re-election ISLAMAl!A[), Paki st,m IAP} - A crkke1 scnr ru1uung for prime ntinist.cr elf Pakis tan wcn1 to cuun yestc~day 10 bfoc k ousted lcad,1r Benazir Bhutto Imm see king rc-d ccdon w dn y. T he move by lm mn Kh an probabl y came too late to affect voting, his ~poke:rwoman ocknowlcdgcd. llm the .s uh cou t,I result in Ms. Bhutto bei ng ba rred from tu king o ffice if she wins, said Nasi m 'Zch ra, ihc spokeswoman for Khan 's ·1usclce r nrty. Ms. Bhutto was dism issed b)' the p·residcm Nov. 5 on allegations of curtllpt.ion and ~conomic mism ,magc mc m . The Supreme C{>tHt uphe ld the dism issa l Lasr Th ursday. Khan waited fur th(: decision 10 file h is su it, Zeru:a s aid_ Opinion poUs show Kha.11 trniling Ms. a huuo anJ Nowaz Sharif, h e;id of the Pa kl.,sma Mus lim I..c:,guc, who ls sl.ightly ahead. M s. Jlhu n o has acwscd rhe interi m government overseei ng the vmc of plnnning to rig ba llots in Sharif's favor. Sbe thr141.ten$ to re ject t h.~ results if sh~ wins !ewer than 90 scats in tl1e 2 17 -me.mhcr National Assembly. " We hope nl\d pray that tile e lections wUI he fair, otherw ise it would be dlsostrous. for the country," sh e s"id Sunday nftc r.arrivlng to vote in her hometown of La.ka.tna, 500 mi lcs south of lslt101nbad. Ne.nrly 60 mill.ion voc.crs wtrc rcgistcrc.d, bur t urnout was e,q,ectccl to be low. Voters appear I CHINA WARN ED A GAfNST REPEAL!NG CIVIL ·LIBERcTIES LAWS: A.pm •dcmocracy leg,slator w•rncd Ch ,no yesterday I h111 tampering with Hong Kong's c ,v,i libe,n il!S " wil l bnoklire anJ will stlr up rescm ment." I-long Kon~ ts law-,1hlt.li ng and Chu1a shciuhl !cam w trust il, Emily Lnu said in a s tare,u em bmadc:tst tm Hong Kung radi o's weekly " Ll'ttcr tO Hon)\ Kong.'' It was ~,red ca day aft.ct the, l'reparatory C.,,mm ittcc, set up hy lldjinl} to prepnre fo r C hinese rule on July 1, ddii:d lldti~b ohic1.-t\nns and Jl!)provcd the rolling back some of HClng Kong's civil Uben ies l,aws. ,r FRENCH, U U SS1AN PRESIDE JT S MEET: l'rencb President Jacques Chime -. -- sal,I be was impressed yesrerLlay with.Boris Yt.!l[Sin'$ recovery (rom hearl sur~cry .a-nd pn eun101tia, and sa id the Ru~sian leader s.e emed the same as alw11 ys. Chime spt>ke with reporters ,1ftcr three hours of talks with Yeltsi n outside Mosc111v, a meeti ng clqscly wattnc\tl for news of t be ailing, rcclus.ivl: /,rcqur:s Chirac Russian lc,1dcr'~ cunuition. At an airpon nev,,1s confercnc.e, Chirac seen1cd angry \,rhen reporte r asked bim if Yehs,n h.ad trouble w.tl ~lng, ta lking or w1dcTStandini; the discussions. " l fo1md nothing of this in l'resitlc.nt Ycltsin's behavior. Nmhin g," h e. &napped. "I was very m\lch im pressed by the speed of his recovery." 3 Oususd l'akiswm PnmaMm1~ter /Jenazir /Jh11un arnves a.i the Lm/wna uirport yeslud11y co vou in her hoiruw:,wn in toduy's ult/.ctionx. discouragcJ . Three govern ments, including unc headed by Sharif, have been dismissed on corrtoption charges in the last J 2 years_ The bead of the pa.rty that wins control of tht Nationa l Assembly, whetlw r a lrmc nr with cmtl !t ion pa rtners, will he prime minis ter a,n d expected to serve a five. year term . Scats arc a lso being com cstcd in Pakisrnn's four provi nc ial legislatures-. POL'JCE STOP ALBANIAN LAWMAKER FR01\\ ROLDCNG RALLY: l'olice bridly detnined a member of pa.cllani'e nt yesr~tda)', pr"vencl ng hi m from leading an antigovernment rally. A half-dozen police cars near T irana's main spa ns s tadium det erred protesters from rallyi ng with lndepeodent law maker Azem Hajdari, who was pushed into an u.n marked car by three pla,n c.lothcd polieemcn, in.eludi ng a bodygu ard of president Sall Berisha. |