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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.
Mozambique to elect new leader
On Wednesday and Thursday,
Mozambique will elect a new
president to replace Joaquim
Chissano, the man who has led
the country since 1986.
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Area: 309,495 sq. mi.
Population: 18,811,731
(July 2004 est.)
Life expectancy: 37.1 years
HIV/AIDS adult prevalence: 12.2%
Infant mortality rate: 199.0 per 1,000
Unemployment rate: 21%
GDP per capita: $1,200
Religions
Christian Muslim
30% 20%
Indigenous
beliefs - 50%
Ethnic groups:
Indigenous tribal
groups 99.66%
(Makhuwa,
Tsonga, Lomwe,
Sena, others),
Europeans
0.06%, Euro
Africans 0.2%,
Indians 0.08%
internet hosts: 3,249 (2003)
Internet users: 50,000 (2002)
Television sets: 5 per 1,000
SOURCES: CIA; World Almanac; ESRI
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