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TAOYUAN, Taiwan - Investigators
pivbing the deadly Singapore Airlines crash
provided the most detailed description yet
o f how the accident occurred. Seconds
after the Los Angeles-bound Boeing 747-
400 began its takeoff, a front wheel hit a
concrete barrier and the je t slammed into a
construction crane that peeled open the
plane’s belly, said David Lee, an investiga
tor with Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council.
The crash killed 82 ofthe 179 people aboard,
and dozens were injured.
Ford to Recall 430,000
Mustangs
DETROIT - Ford Motor will recall about
430,000 Ford Mustangs dating to 1994 be
cause o f a parking brake problem, the
automaker said. The recall will affect model
year 1994 to 2001 Mustangs with manual
transmissions. Ford said the parking brake
could sometimes slip, causing the car to
move.
Judge U pholds $145B
Sm ok ers’ Verdict
MIAMI - A judge upheld a jury ’ s record
setting $ 145 billion damage award to Florida
smokers, rejecting tobacco com panies’
claims that it would make them bankrupt.
The final judgm ent opens the door on what
is expected to be a prolonged appeals pro
cess in state courts. The tobacco industry
must post a $ 100 m i Ilion bond to appeal and
attorneys promised to do so immediately.
L aw yers Plan Slave
R eparations Suit
A powerful group o f civil rights and
class-action lawyers who have won bil
lions o f dollars in court is preparing a law
suit seeking reparations for American blacks
descended from slaves. The project ap
pears to be the most serious effort yet to get
American blacks compensated for more
than 240 years o f legalized slavery.
W orld W atching Bush-
G ore Battle
TOKYO - The world - from Bogota to
Brussels, from London to Kuala Lumpur -
is watching with increasing interest as the
battle between George W. Bush and A1
Gore comes down to its final days. In W est
ern Europe, it’s the death penalty election.
For Chinese newspaper readers, the vote is
a lesson in U.S. - style money politics.
Kenyans wonder if a new president will
make it harder to get U.S. visas.
More Rain Hits Flooded
Britain
LONDON - Rain swept across Britain,
swelling rivers already at bursting point as
the country’s most widespread floods in 50
years show ed few signs o f abating.
W eather forecasters warned that the situ
ation would probably get worse over the
next 48 hours with more rain on its way.
Soyuz Successfully Docks
with Space Station
KOROLYOV, Russia - The first resi
dents o f the international space station
arrived at their home for the next four
months. American astronaut Bill Shepherd,
the station’s skipper, and the two cosmo
nauts easily docked the Soyuz capsule a
few minutes ahead o f schedule.
World’s Oldest Woman Dies
LONDON - The world’s oldest woman,
who attributed her longevity to whisky and
boiled onions, died - six days short o f her
115,h birthday. Eva Morris died peacefully
in her sleep at a nursing home in the central
England town o f Stone, staff said. Morris
was recognized as the oldest woman in the
world by the Guinness Book o f Records in
March.
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Big Turnout Puts Vice
President Gore Ahead
A1 Gore won three critical battleground
states Tuesday, NBC News projected, taking
Florida. Michigan and Pennsylvania to move
ahead o f George W. Bush in electoral votes,
183-144, as returns rolled in from the eastern
half o f the country. Americans turned out in
extraordinary numbers, some o f them waiting
for hours for their chance to vote in the
closest presidential election in decades.
Most o f the biggest states in the East and
the M idwest were falling into the vice
president’s column, inc luding New Y ork, New
Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois. Mean
while, Texas and much o f the rest o f the Deep
South went to George W. Bush, the Republi
can governor o f Texas, according to NBC’s
analysis o f voters’ responses to pollsters’
questions after they cast their ballots.
While other states in the South and Mid
east were rolling in, Bush and Gore settled in
for a long evening and waited expectantly for
reports from Pennsylvania, where the polls
closed at 8 p.m. ET.
Nurse Practitioner Mariah laylor (left) is joined by neighs > Michelle "Mikey Butler at a 20-year anniversary
Tim Russert, N B C ’s chief political corre
celebration fo r her north Portland pediatric health care clinic. (P hoto BY M ark W ashing TON/P ortl ANO/O bserver )
spondent, had predicted before the polls
closed that if Gore won in Florida, Bush would
have a tough time building a majority in the
Electoral College. Bush’s loss in Pennsylva
nia, as well, meant he’d need 1 Oofthe remain
A small N orth Portland health clinic that
Currently, it’s theonly community health
The clinic has received numerous awards
ing 12 so-called swing states to claim the
has been honored nationally for its out
facility in Portland solely dedicated to serv
fo r its s e r v ic e in c lu d in g th e 1999
presidency, Russert said.
stan d in g w ork in p ro v id in g p ed iatric
ing the health care needs o f medically poor
N ew sm akerofthe Y ear Award from KGW-
The important result in Florida was de
healthcare for low -incom e residents is cel
children.
TV and the Pride o f Portland Award from
layed by massive turnout. Florida’s polls
ebrating its 20th anniversary
The clinic assists about 2,000 patients
the D ow ntow n L io n 's Club.
closedat7p.m . ET, but N BC's Kerry Sanders
M ariah T aylor, executive director and
each year, Taylor said. “ O ur com m itm ent
M ost recently, the clinic received a
reported that some people had been waiting
one o f the two nurse practitioner who work
to the com m unity and the increased need
$50.000 grant from the Oprah W infrey and
in line to vote for up to three hours, and Gov.
at the facility, founded the clinic on Nov. 3,
for service is what has created the fact that
Taylor was selected to be o f W infrey’s
Jeb Bush declared that anybody still in line at
1980. The clinic m oved to its current loca
we still exist,” she said. “We are striving
Angel Network" for using her life in service
7 p.m. would be able to vote. Yet another key
tion at 531 1 N. V ancouver Ave. in 1982.
and we are making an im pact.”
to others.
result comes after 11 p.m. ET, when polls close
in California, where G ore’s lead in pre-elec
tion polls was cut significantly in the weeks
leading up to Election Day.
Jenny Backus, the Democratic National
Committee’s press secretary, predicted that
“for the first time in three decades, this elec
tion will be decided by West Coast voters.”
Still, given how close the race is and the
W ashington man romanced a 14-
fact that absentee ballots are significant in
year-old girl online and then be
California and Washington while Oregon
came enraged with jealousy to
voted completely by mail, it could be another
ward her ex-boyfriend, planting a bomb at his
day before a winner is known.
Laurelhurst home, according to investiga
The latest, and last, MSNBC/Reuters/
tors.
Zogby daily tracking poll, released Tuesday
Detectives tracked the 41-year-old sus
morning, showed the vice president ahead of
pect on the Internet after the September bomb
his Republican opponent by 48 percent to 46
ing attack. "Timothy G off had developed an
percent. He had trailed Bush by similar mar
internet relationship with a young girl which
gins for more than 10 days before nudging
led to a physical relationship.” explained chief
ahead Monday. But the difference remained
MarkKroeker.
within the poll’s 3-point margin o f sampling
Barry Homstein, 59, was seriously injured
error and was a statistical tie.
when the bomb exploded in his driveway on
“This is too close to call in both the popular
September 27. Investigators believe Barry’s
vote and in several battleground states," said
son. Jack, was actually G o ffs intended tar
John Zogby, whose firm conducted the sur
get.
vey.
’’G off was upset that Homstein had a rela
As polls began closing in the East, NBC
tionship with a girl that he had his intentions
projected that Bush had won in Alabama,
upon,” Kroeker said.
Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missis
Investigators found threatening e-mails
sippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyo
about Jack Homstein on the Web and tracked
ming, both Carolinas and both Dakotas, in
them to the W ashington man. They arrested
addition to his home state ofTexas. Gore had
Goffafter finding evidence in his Port Orchard
won Connecticut, Delaware, the District o f
home that linked him to the bomb.
Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland,
Police charged G off with rape ofa child, as
Massachusetts. Michigan, New Jersey, New
well as building the homemade bomb. They
York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
believe G off had sex with H om stein’s 14-
The fight for Congress remained tight.
year-old ex-girlfriend.
Hillary Rodham C linton kept New Y ork’s
Doctors had to amputate Barry Homstein’s
Senate seat in D em ocratic hands, defeat
right leg, just below the knee, after he was
ing Rep Rick Lazio, and Democrats picked
injured in the bomb explosion. Homstein
up a seat in Florida, where Bill Nelson
detonated the device when he tried to kick it
defeated Republican Bill M cCollum to re
out o f his driveway, not realizing it was a
place retiring Sen. Connie Mack, according
homemade bomb.
to exit polling data. But in a m ajor loss for
Jack was targeted again later, when some
the Dem ocrats hoping to regain the Senate,
one left a fake bomb in front o f his new
Sen.
Charles Robb o f V irginia lost to R e
Students exit Madison High School after another day o f hitting the books.
girlfriend's house in Kennewick, W ashing
publican
form er Gov. G eorge A llen. NBC
The northeast Portland school is getting well-deserved praise fo r giant leaps
ton.
projected
in its daily attendance rate. Recent figures show attendance has grown bv
Investigators said someone also posted
In the House, Republicans held on to two
almost 21 percent in the last two years and now stands at 96 percent.
threatening fliers about Jack at Grant High
key seats in Kentucky, but several key races
School, where he attended classes.
(P hoto by M ark W ashington /P ortland O bseryer ) in Florida were too close to call.
Heralded Pediatric Clinic Celebrates
Man Charged
in Laurelhurst
Bombing
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Madison Gains on Attendance
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