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Show re I 6 Jm Saturday Morning April 28th Sell your stuff for $30 a spot. 435-787-2060 2002 S. Hwy89 (Across from Flylng-J) ' J Sign up for Updates all summer long from The Utah Statesman. www. utahstatesman .com I respect Fountains Games World & NationTheTJflfi French presidential runoff election to have first ever woman candidate PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal advanced to a runoff in Sunday's presidential election, presenting France with a fundamental left-right choice between a conservative who could push his anxious nation toward painful change and a socialist who would be the country's first female leader. Royal is the first woman to get this close to the helm of this major European economic, military and diplomatic power after a campaign marked by suspense, surprise and unusually dynamic candidates who lured voters to the ballot box in near record numbers. Sarkozy has the advantage heading into the May 6 runoff. Partial results from the Interior Ministry, based on a count of 30 AP Photo/MichaelSawyer million votes - or more than 80 percent FRENCH SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SEGOLENE ROYAL waves at - had Sarkozy leading with 30 percent, fol- her headquarters in Paris, France, Monday, April 23,2007 after the first lowed by Royal with 25 percent. round of the French presidential elections, Either way, France will get its first presitaxes to invigorate the sluggish economy, dent with no memory of World War II to while Royal would hike government spendreplace the 74-year-old Jacques Chirac, who ing and preserve the country's generous is stepping down after 12 years to usher in a worker protections. new generation of candidates. Royal, too, champions change but says it Sunday's first round of voting shut out 10 must not be brutal. other hopefuls, from Trotskyists to far right "I extend my hand to all those women and leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen had hoped men who think, as I do, that it is not only to repeat his shockingly strong showing of possible but urgent to abandon a system that 2002 but instead finished a weak fourth. no longer works," she said. The runoff offers "a clear choice between Both Sarkozy, a Hungarian immigrant's two very different paths," she said. son, and Royal, a military officer's daughter who beat Socialist heavyweights to win Outside Socialist Party headquarters in her party's nomination, are in their 50s and Paris, supporters reacted to the result with have traveled long, arduous roads to get to joy, chanting, "We're going to win!" this point. Sarkozy told cheering supporters Sunday The winner's task will be tough: France is night that by choosing him and Royal, voters "clearly marked their wish to go to the very a troubled nation, still haunted by the riots by young blacks and Arabs in poor neighbor- end of the debate between two ideas of the nation, two programs for society, two value hoods in 2005. systems, two concepts of politics." Decades of stubbornly high unemployment, increasing competition from econoDespite Sarkozy's lead, he faces a powermies like China's, and a sense that France ful "Anything But Sarkozy" push by those is losing influence in the world made this who call him too arrogant and explosive to a passionate campaign. Both Royal and run a nuclear-armed nation. He once called Sarkozy have promised to get France back young delinquents "scum," a remark that on its feet - but offer starkly different paths outraged the residents of poor neighborfor doing that. hoods and has dogged him politically. 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Subject to change at lender's discretion. 3 interest rate reduction for students that select to have their monthly payments automatically deducted from their checking or savings account. ©2007 KeyCorp GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Islamic militant group Hamas on Sunday called for new attacks on Israel after eight Palestinians were killed in a surge of fighting over the weekend. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum urged Palestinians to be prepared for a new round of confrontation. "The blood of our people is not cheap," he said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Therefore we are calling on ... (Hamas' armed wing) and the Palestinian resistance groups to be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres." Eight Palestinians were killed during a 24-hour surge in violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including two militants killed early Sunday during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus. The fighting also included a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot that damaged one home but caused no injuries. The violence has threatened a cease-fire declared last November between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. Palestinian officials have also said it jeopardized their efforts to expand the truce to the West Bank. The Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas, has called for an expanded truce. Hamas officials in the government have tried to separate themselves from pronouncements by the group's military wing. Israel considers Hamas in all its forms to be a terrorist group. Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, declined to comment on the Hamas statement issued Sunday, saying he had not yet read it. But he said the government "condemns the ugly massacres and crimes that reflect Israel's policy of military aggression." Fighting in Somalia kills 12 MOGADISHU, Somalia Fighting between Ethiopian troops and insurgents left at least 12 people dead in Somalia's capital Thursday, while a suicide car bomb exploded at an Ethiopian army base, officials and witnesses said. Fighting in Mogadishu has killed hundreds of people since Ethiopian forces helped Somalia's fragile interim government oust an Islamic militia in December. Remnants of the Islamic group have vowed to wage an Iraq-style insurgency. More than 200,000 people have fled Mogadishu since February, the U.N, refugee agency said. Deputy Defense Minister. Salad Ali Jelle blamed the suicide car bombing on alQaida elements and said no troops had been killed or wounded. Hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers live at the base, which is surrounded by a low wall and has an ungated entrance. A witness to the bombing, Ahmed Hassan Abdulle, said he saw at least 10 Ethiopian soldiers lying wounded on the ground. : • Elsewhere, several witnesses reported mortar shells striking targets in the city. Businessman Ahmed ,. Warsame said he heard shells hit in his southwest-', ern Mogadishu neighbor^; . hood and went out to see.if : anyone needed help, find-,]v ing eight bodies lying in ;- -; the street. Their belongings were strewn about, suggesting they had been trying fo flee the capital, he told The Associated Press by phone. |