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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1996 U.S. DIGEST METEOR CAUSES COLORFUL FLASH IN SKY SEEN FROM CALIFORNIA T O NEW MEXICO: An apparent meteorite streaked through the West's nighttime sky, transfixing residents from California to New Mexico and briefly turning darkness into day. The light "just blossomed out into something like a flare or a torch flame. It seemed to have little sparkles coming from it," said Patricia Dobbins, who saw it from the Griffith Park Observatory. A Death Valley National Monument park ranger pulled his vehicle to the shoulder, the flash of light.so brigh t it made it "seem like daytime." " It was just incredibly bright and then immediately out of the sky," Calvin Foster, another ranger at Lake Success nea r Porterville, said Friday. "It looked like a shooting star. My first thought was a flare because it was so bright. " Foster said the display lasted just two to three seconds. THOUSANDS WALK TO RAISE MONEY FOR AIDS CARE: Infants in strollers, couples hand-in-hand, dogs wearing red ribbons m ade their way around the streets of the nation's capital yesterday in an annual trek to raise money for the ca re of AIDS patients. Organizers estimated that more than 15,000 people participated in the 10th annual AIDS Walk Washington, which began and ended at the Ellipse betweer. the White House and the Washington Monument. The walk is the largest fundraising event in the District of Columbia, but similar events are held in major cities across the country. Tipper Gore, the vice president's wife and the walk's honorary chairwoman, sent the walkers on their way with an appeal to keep up the search for a cure to the disease that has killed 300,000 people in the United States. " The fight is not over until all our loved ones are safe, " she said. Those who traveled the walking tour's full 6.2 miles raised more than $2 million for AIDS programs at the Whitman-Walker Glinic, which provides housing, medical and other forms of care for Washington-area AIDS patients. Clinton, Dole debate issues in first meeting HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - President Clinton and Bob Dole clashed vigorously over tax cuts, Medicare, education and the economy last night in a spirited prime-time debate over who should be trusted to lead America into the 21st century. " I think the best thi ng going for Bob Dole is that Bob Dole keeps his word," the Republican challenger said in a 90-minute debate critical to his hopes of launching an October comeback. " It is not m idnight in America, senator: We are better off than we were four years ago," Clinton said in making his case for a second tenn. The Democratic incumbent and his Republican challenger stood just a few feet apart on a red-carpeted stage, challenging each other again and again in a showdown that ushered in the final month of the White House campaign. Clinton took credit for an economy that had created more than 10 million jobs, for cutting the deficit by 60 percent and for vetoing Dolebacked Republican budgets he asserted would have cut $270 billion from Medicare and another $30 billion from education. Looking ahead, Clinton said his $100 billion in tax credits targeted to making college more affordable were far more responsible than President Clinton and Bob Dole greet the audience just before the beginning of the presidential debate. Dole's "$550 billion tax scheme." " We have the right app roach for the future," Clinton said. Dole forcefully disagreed, and accused C linton of running a campaign designed to scare elderly Americans. " I am trying to save your Medicare, just as I rescued Social Security," Dole said. Entering the debate, Clinton was ahead by a dozen points or more in m ost national polls and in surveys from the major Electoral College battleground states. The two candidates will meet again in 10 days, in another debate. THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST PEACEFUL ELECTIONS IN TROUBLED MEXICAN STATE: Elections testing the ruling party's grip on local power went peacefull y yesterday in the southwestern state of Guerrero, after thousands of soldiers hunting rebe.ls retreated to their barracks. Troops in olive drab, who have virtually occupied some isolated communities, withdrew to their camps to sit out the voting. For the first time in months, no armored vehicles patrolled state highways. The temporary retreat, . which began Saturday evening, eased worries about possible election-day violence in Guerrero, where the Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, first emerged June 28: The threat of guerrilla war has driven the campaigns to elect 76 mayors and an all-new 28-member state congress. "When faced with a dangerous situation like this, it is important that people vote," said Jose Luis Hernandez, 26, a computer science student, after casting his ballot in the main plaza of the state capital, Chil pancingo. POPE ASKS FOR 'SPffiITUAL SOLIDARITY' BEFORE SURGERY: Patients in casts and bandages crowded into windows and balconies yesterday to greet Pope John Paul II as he entered a Rom e hospital for an operation to remove an inflamed appendix. The 76-year-old pontiff, wearing a white cassock, walked slowly from his car into the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital. The operation will be tomorrow morning, said hospital Pope f ohn Paul II spokesman Giuseppe Pallanch. Patients flocked to windows and balconies. Some wore casts or bandages and some used wheelchairs. "Good luck. Good luck," yelled some of the nearly 300 people at the hospital entrance. "I'm very worried for him," said a nun, Sister Valentina, who had waited for the pope for hours. I Bomb datnages French city hall No one claim ed responsibility and there had BORDEAUX, France (AP) - Authorities been no warnings, said prosecutor Patrice suspect Corsican separatists in a late-night Davost. bomb that tore through city hall hours after " The state can no t give wa y before terrorism the mayor - Premier Alain Juppe - had left (and) must not let itself be intimidated," for Paris, a TV station reported yesterday. Juppe said in No injuries an interview were reported with in the blast, television which network TF 1. occurred Authorities shortly before said the use midnight of plastic Saturday. It explosives or damaged the dynamite in ground floor the bomb reception hall probably and discounted surrounding the rooms and possibility broke that Basque windows on separatists, all three levels of the Police officers investigate yesterday morning inside the who are 18th-century Bordeaux City Hall , western France, after a bomb exploded active in the building. Saturday night. region, were The French ----=--=----------- - - - - - - - -- - responsible. Basque nationalists usually use gas bottle television station LCI reported that bombs. authorities suspect Corsican separatists were The bomb appeared to have been planted on behind the bombing in this southwestern city. steps leading from the reception room to an Corsican nationalist groups have waged a adjoining garden. The blast was heard violent campaign for independence for the French Mediterranean island, but mostly have throughout the area. Juppe, who returned to Bordeaux yesterday, restricted their attacks to the island itself. said the attack was " rather traumatizing." Investigators said they did not know whether the bomb targeted Juppe or city hall. |