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Ohio Electoral
Votes Contested
Tsunami
Survivor
Rescued
at Sea
(AP) — A tsunami survivor res­
cued after 15 days adrift in the In­
dian Ocean recounted how he lived
on coconuts that floated by, tear­
ing them open with his teeth.
The 21 -year-old man was picked
up Sunday by a container ship after
being swept out to sea by the tsu­
nami from a beachfront construc­
tion site in Aceh, Indonesia.
Appearing fit despite the ordeal,
he said he saw four of his friends
grab pieces of debris or uprooted
trees, "but we drifted away from
each other as the waves rolled us
out further into the sea.”
For a while, he lay on a 5-foot-
long plank, weak and exhausted.
He ended up staying on the list­
ing boat for five days before spot­
ting a large unmanned raft with a hut
on it. He swam up to it and found a
gallon bottle of water aboard.
On the 15th day, Ari said he
awoke and saw the container ship
bearing down on him.
The Dec. 26earthquake and tsu­
nami has killed more than 15(),(XX)
people across southern Asia.
(AP) — When members of the
Congressional Black Caucus and
other House Democrats needed just
one senator to sign a challenge to
O hio's electoral votes, they knew
who to ask - California’s Barbara
Tony Geyer guides his father down a road which was submerged by a mudslide in Southern
California. (AP photo)
Mudslides Devastate California
have brought astonishing amounts
of rain was blamed for the deaths of
at least 19 people.
The National W eather Service
said Tuesday that downtown Los
Angeles had recorded its wettest
15 consecutive day s on record, with
a total of 17 inches of rain falling in
the period ending Monday.
In La Conchita, a small commu­
nity on a spit of land between the hills
south of Santa Barbara and the Pa­
cific Ocean, a massive mudslide
Monday killed three people, injured
12 and left up to 21 unaccounted-for.
Southeast o f Los Angeles, Or­
Nineteen dead,
others injured
or missing
(AP) — Scattered rain showers
lashed waterlogged Southern Cali­
fornia again Tuesday, hampering
efforts to find survivors buried by
a mudslide in a coastal community
and prompting hundreds to flee a
mountain town below a rain-swol­
len reservoir and along rising
streams.
The succession of storms that
ange County sh e riffs personnel
evacuated hund red s o f people
Tuesday along a three-mile stretch
of swelling San Juan Creek in San
Juan Capistrano.
The storm also forced the evacu­
ation of an apartment complex in
Alhambra, a suburb on the edge of
Los Angeles, where authorities
feared a rain-saturated hill might
give way, and a man was trapped
Tuesday in a cave in San Bernar­
dino County.
Roads al 1 over Southern Cal i for-
nia were being closed periodically
because of high water.
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones,
D-Ohio with Sen. Barbara
Boxer, D-Calif. (background)
object to the certification of
Ohio’s electoral votes.
Boxer, among the fieriest liberals in
a state full o f them.
More than a decade after she led
fellow congresswomen up the steps
of the Senate to demand hearings
into Anita Hill’s sexual harassment
claims against Clarence Thomas,
Boxer staged her latest - and per­
haps most dram atic - rebellion
Thursday.
By joining African-American
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-
Ohio, in lodging a formal protest
against how O hio’s presidential
votes were tallied. Boxer provided
the needed Senate signature that
forced the House and Senate to
meet separately to debate the com ­
plaint.
What was to have been a stately
ceremony quickly turned intoasome-
tim es contentious discussion of
voting that infuriated Republicans.
Boxer said she decided to sign
the complaint after concluding there
were real voting problems in Ohio
that needed to be discussed.
No other U.S. Senator, including
Oregon’s Ron Wyden and Gordon
Smith or a single member of Con­
gress from either Oregon or W ash­
ington voted to support the electoral
challenge as it failed to win passage.
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U.S. Rep. Melvin L. Watt
New Chair
of Black
Caucus
Anis Aziz Atiyeh
Owner
Mr.A’s Deli Mart
Gresham
U.S. Rep. Melvin L. Watt, D-N.C.
was named the new chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus last
week.
W att promised that he and the
other43 members of the caucus will
“keep the continuum of progress
moving forward toward equality”
over the next two years.
In his farewell address as outgo­
ing chairman of the CBC, U.S. Rep.
Elijah E. Cum mings D-Md. ex­
pressed his gratitude for the oppor­
tunity to serve the group.
He said W att had the intellect,
skill, and balanced approach to
solving today’s public policy chal­
lenges.
“I am fully confident that C on­
gressman W att will build upon the
legacy of the Caucus of being the
‘Conscience o f the Congress’ and
lead us to new heights.”
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Deadly Iraq
Unsafe for
Many Voters
(AP) — Prime M inister Ayad
Allawi said Tuesday that some ar­
eas o f Iraq will probably be too
unsafe to take part in the Jan. 30
elections, his first public acknow l­
ed g m en t th at the g o v ern m en t
would not be able to exert control in
key areas controlled by insurgents.
Allawi promised, however, to
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