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Show AiO PuiiC - THl DAILY HI RAI D, Prmo, Utah, Friday. October 23, lWK Democrats in key races close financial gap SetraaD By KEVIN GALVIN fund-raisin- AMKiaud Pres Writer WASHINGTON Though their national party trails the badly in money race, Democratic candidates in many of the most watched contests this election are raising enough to stay competitive with Republicans. A review of the latest Federal Klection Commission reports from four dozen of the House races showed that 27 Democrats held an advantage in cash on hand over their opponents going into the last month of the campaign. In the top 12 Senate races, the cash advantage was evenly split, with Democrats leading in six races and Republicans leading in the others. Hut the (K)I' party commit most-watche- ' tees, which hold commanding advantages over their Democratic counterparts, are in a position to try to tip the balance by targeting large sums of their own money and advertising at key races in the final days. Already, GOP candidates in d g such battleground states as California, Florida and Texas have benefited from large infusions of cash or ad buys by the national parties an effort the Democratic Party acknowledges it won't be able to match. "We're always outspent. That's new," nothing Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Melissa Honney Ratcliff said. Democratic candidates planned early to build their own campaign warchests rather than rely on late handouts from their party, which has been strapped by its own fund-raisin- contro- g versy the last two years. For instance, Democrat Gail Riecken, who is looking to unseat Rep. John Hostettler, has so far outraised her opponent $644,000 to $523,000. "Gail knew that in order to take this race, she was going to have to raise more money than her opponent," campaign spokeswoman Heather Fidler said. "The national party was of far less importance than what was happening in the candidates' bank accounts." Ratcliff said the party intentionally sent its primary fundraisers, including President Clinton, out to raise more directly for candidates than in past years in order to "make sure that candidates are on their own and can well-finance- d be competitive." U.N. official sees likely clash ;at global warming conference vene a The Associated Press Z conference the host Argentine delegation is expected to try to add to the agenda a discussion of ways to make "voluntary" emissions quotas for some developing countries part of the forma treaty structure. "That's when a row could blow up," Zammit Cutajar told reporters at a news conference previewing the meeting. "The Argentine proposal is supported by some and opposed by many." At a landmark conference last December in Kyoto, Japan, governments agreed to a treaty protocol that would, for the two-wee- k Nov. 2 in Buenos Aires, NATIONS U.MTKI) North and South may clash from Day 1 at a global warming conference next month in as Washington Argentina, pushes to extend limits on "greenhouse" gas emissions to poorer countries, a top U.N. climate official said Thursday. "One big issue that is hovering ... is when and how developing countries might also take on commitments," said Michael Zammit Cutajar, U.N. adminis1992 trator of the global warming treaty. When treaty nations con HSti-natio- n Culler getts first time, legally mandate emission reductions by the United States, Japan, the European Union and 21 other industrial nations. They are to cut their output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming gases emitted by motor vehicles and to power plants, for example 5 percent below their 1990 levels, as of the period 2008-201- The Buenos Aires conference was planned to work out details of such treaty mechanisms as a system of trading emissions quotas among indus- trial nations. m DEtfe Sddo By JOHN NOLAN Associated Press Writer T-- - CINCINNATI White-supremaci- - st Joseph Paul Franklin, awaiting execution in Missouri for part of his killings around the country, criticized Ohio's judicial system Thursday as he received a life sentence for each of the 1980 sniper murders of two black teens. "You're just a representative of the satanic system and you'll be judged by Jesus Christ," he told Hamilton County Common Fleas Judge Ralph Winkler, who minutes later gave him terms of 20 years to life for the 1980 shootings of the randomly chosen victims. "I won't have 18 notches on my gun when I do," Winkler replied, referring to Franklin's link to up to 18 killings acrrss the nation. Franklin, 48, has been convicted of nine murders from Tennessee to Utah. He has said he tried to start a race war by traveling around the country shooting blacks and interracial couples from 1977 to 1980. He is to be executed in Missouri for the 1977 sniper killing of a Jewish man who was leaving a synagogue. He also has been sentenced to life in prison in other states for racially motivated shootings. The drifter from Mobile, Ala., also has admitted to wounding civil rights leader Vernon a now Jordan, Washington lawyer and friend of President Clinton's, in 1980. d back-to-bac- .1 IK -- : 7 k Xl AL BKHRMAN The Associated Pres. Hate: Joseph Paul Franklin stands with his attorney, Dale Schmidt, left, as he is found guilty on Wednesday in Cincinnati of murdering in 1980. Franklin was also convicted in Utah two black teen-ager- s of a similar crime. until he picked out the black teens and killed them because of their race, Prosecutor Joseph Deters told the jury. Each victim was shot twice as they sneaked away from a sleeping relative's house to go to the corner store. The defense presented no testimony and declined ,to make closing arguments. Franklin was acquitted. He also admitted to the 1978 shooting of Hustler magazine Publisher Larry Flynt, who enraged Franklin by publishing pictures of interracial couples. Franklin was not prose-cule- d for that shooting. On Wednesday, he was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder for killing cousins Darrell Lane, 14, and Dante Evans Brown, 13, of The victims' families declined an opportunity to speak in court at the sentencing Thursday. Franklin could not get more than life because Ohio had no death penalty at the time of the Cincinnati. 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