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Today Thursday Friday High: 48 High: 46 High: 48 Low: 35 Low: 34 Low: 37 Precip: 30% Precip: 0% Precip: 10% IN BRIEF Bank robbery suspects caught after shootout BOISE, Idaho — A married couple suspected of robbing a Boise bank and kidnapping two people has been caught after a shootout and brief car chase that ended on icy roads in northeastern Oregon. Charles Benton Bagwell, 32, and Erin Marie Bagwell, 32, both of Red lands, Calif., ran off a road Tuesday night near Baker City with officers from the Oregon State Police and oth er agencies in pursuit. The chase began at a Baker City convenience store, where officers reportedly saw the Bagwells in a car. They’d allegedly bought the ve hicle earlier in the day with cash stolen in Monday afternoon’s heist at a US Bank branch near Boise State University. After being spotted, the pair opened fire, said Lynn Hightower, a Boise police spokeswoman. No Ore gon officers were hit, she said. “When officers saw them, (the Bagwells) fired, then got back in their car,” Hightower said, relaying reports from Oregon authorities. “But the roads over there are slick. After a short pursuit, they crashed their car and were taken into custody.” Monday evening and all day Tlies day, Boise police searched the city for the husband and wife, who were considered “armed and desperate.” Charles Bagwell has a record of armed robbery, burglary, grand theft and weapons charges in Oregon, Hightower said. Allawi meets influential Iraqis in Jordan BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s interim prime minister went to Jordan on Tuesday for meetings with tribal fig ures and other influential Iraqis in a bid to encourage Sunni Muslims to participate in the Jan. 30 elections, but he ruled out contacts with in surgent leaders and former mem bers of Saddam Hussein’s deposed regime. Insurgents targeted U.S. troops Tuesday in Baghdad and in and around Beiji, a city north of the capital, killing four Iraqi civilians and wounding at least 20 other peo ple, including three U.S. soldiers. Three Iraqi children, aged 3, 4 and 5, were killed when two mortar rounds struck their neighborhood in Baqouba, the U.S. military said. Stocks fall lower on consumer confidence NEW YORK — Stocks sagged Tliesday as sliding consumer confi dence trumped the latest report on the nation’s gross domestic product, which grew at a faster pace than ex pected. Still, the major indexes end ed November with their best monthly performance for the year. After a modest opening weekend to the holiday shopping season, a fourth straight monthly decline in consumer confidence was the last thing investors wanted to see. But analysts weren’t overly alarmed by the selling, noting that it seemed relatively controlled and was typical of the sort of pause stocks often see after Thanksgiving and ahead of the seasonally strong month of December. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 47.88, or 0.46 percent, at 10,428.02, slipping back into negative range for the year. — The Associated Press Mozambique citizens to vote on new president Among the five presidential candidates, those from the Frelimo and Renamo patties stand as main contenders BY TERRY LEONARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAPUTO, Mozambique — There is a European flavor to this seaside capital with its soft pastels and crum bling Mediterranean architecture. But the squalor along its dirt strewn boulevards is typically African. Poverty is at its worst in Africa, and in Mozambique it is nearly as bad as it gets. Yet the world keeps telling Mozambicans how good they have it. Their country is hailed as a success story, at least in Africa. It defied the odds, maintaining peace after a devastating civil war — and began to grow. On Wednesday and Thursday, Mozambique’s ragged poor will de liver their own verdict on the coun try’s blessings, failures and promise when they vote for a new president. President Joaquim Chissano, the man who has led Mozambique since the death of independence hero Samora Machel in 1986, is stepping down after two elected terms and positioning himself to become another of Africa’s growing number of revered elder statesmen. His people will decide between embracing what the governing Fre limo party calls three decades of progress or reaching out to an op position that promises a fresh start and economic salvation. “There is a strong sentiment that it is time for change,” said political an alyst Tomas Vieria Mario. “There is a feeling it is time for a new experi ment, to give others a chance and see what they can do for the country.” Mozambicans are desperately poor. More than two-thirds of the country’s 19 million people live on less than a dollar a day. On the U.N. Human Development Index, which measures income, education and longevity, Mozambique ranks a mis erable 170 out of 175 countries. Many feel neglected by development poli cies that have been unevenly applied. There are 17 political parties run ning for Parliament and five with candidates for president. The main contenders are Chissano’s hand picked successor, Frelimo candidate Armando Guebuza, and former rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama of the main opposition Renamo party. The wild card with perhaps the power to decide who wins is Raul Domingo, a former deputy to Dhlakama who bolted from Ren amo in an internal dispute and formed his own Party for Develop ment, Democracy and Good Gover nance. His popular candidacy might deny any candidate a majori ty, forcing a runoff. “Frelimo is a tired party and has ruined the country for 30 years,” Dhlakama told a final campaign ral ly Sunday in his party stronghold, the central port city of Beira. “Vote for me and for my party so that I can rescue you from suffering.” He doesn’t mention that Renamo, a former right-wing guerrilla move ment, waged a 16-year civil war against the Frelimo government after independence from Portugal in 1975. The war killed a million people, cre ated 5 million refugees, and along with Frelimo’s failed experiment with Marxist rule, hopelessly impov erished Mozambique’s people. Guebuza is remembered as the Frelimo negotiator at the talks in Rome that ended in the 1992 peace accord. But he is remembered even more as the interior minister who implemented the Marxist govern ment’s hated relocation program in the 1980s, when urban unem ployed were arrested and moved to remote areas in the north. He is portrayed as a tough man capable of making hard decisions. He told his final campaign rally in the capital only a vote for him and his party could consolidate the gains of a decade. Ten years ago, World Bank per capita income figures showed Mozambique was the poorest coun try on Earth. Since then, Mozam bique’s economy has grown at a re markable rate, averaging move than 7 percent a year. But in the decaying and dusty neighborhoods of the capital, beyond the tree-line boulevards named for Lenin, Mao Tse TUng or Ho Chi Minh, little benefit trickles down to the indigent who fear that economic growth has served only to line the pockets of the rich and powerful. David Pottie, who will observe the election for the Atlanta-based Carter Center human rights group, said that feeling of neglect and ex clusion is heightened in remote northern Mozambique, the least developed area of a vastly under developed country. 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