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Bradley to concede; Gore looks to November
McCain mulls his next move
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bill Bradley intends to bow out of the presidential race today and endorse Vice President Al Gore, who vanquished him in 16 Super Tuesday contests from coast to coast.
Bradley's decision marks the end of a candidacy that soared briefly but floundered when the first votes were cast in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. It also eliminates the last shred of doubt that Gore will be the Democratic presidential nominee, and allows him to turn his attention to November with a party united behind his candidacy.
Both men praised one another in public comments Tuesday night after Gore's victories
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Three senior Bradley advisers, speaking on conditions of anonymity, said the former senator
sealed Bradlev's fate.
the race today and endorse Gore at a news conference near his West Orange, N.J., headquarters. Bradley plans to stay active in public life and is not expected to rule out another presidential run, the adviser.
Bradley:doesn't want to be vice president
the advisers said.
His quick embrace of Gore is bound to increase speculation about Bradley as a potential running mate. However, Bradley himself has said he wouldn't want the vice president's job.
and a senior adviser said yesterday that there was no chance he would change his mind.
Bradley's options were few, and his departure assumed after Gore swept Tuesday's voting and pivoted quickly to the general election campaign against likely GOP nominee George W. Bush.
Gore gained 942 delegates, increasing his total to 1,424 of the 2,170 needed to win the Democratic nomination. Bradley won 355 delegates, giving him 412.
cent of the vote. In addition, Gore won party caucuses in North Dakota, Idaho, Washington state, American Samoa and Hawaii.
"I'll make my plans known shortly," Bradley said after minority voters and union workers sealed Gore's shutout Tuesday in 15 states — including Missouri, where Bradley was born, and New York, where he was a basketball star.
Even as Bradley made plans to drop out, Gore was criticizing the Texas governor yesterday on issues from gun control to Social Security.
Gore easily took as much as 60 percent of the vote in the 15 contests. In a victory address that aides said would become his standard stump speech, he painted the GOP as beholden to its right wing — himself as "mainstream" — and clearly counted on riding the strong economy to victory in November.
In a signal of how he would handle one of his thorniest issues — allegations of improper fund-raising in 1996 — Gore answered repeated questions on the subject on morning TV
shows saying that he had learned from his mistakes and that the nation needed campaign finance reform.
Gore defeated Bradley in primaries in 11 states, including the big prizes of California and New York. Bradley came closest in Vermont, where he pulled 44 per
Bush emerged from the Republican voting as the prohibitive front-runner against Sen. John McCain, who yesterday planned to contemplate the future of his campaign at his Arizona retreat.
Polling place interviews with voters in every region of the country underscored the vice president's strength among core Democratic constituencies.
African Americans preferred Gore ahead of Bradley by a margin of 6-to-1; and Hispanics by 8-to-1. The margin among union members was smaller but still a healthy 3-to-1.
Deadlock broken in Mideast talks
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Gritting their teeth, Palestinians and Israelis ended a crisis in the peace process yesterday by each conceding what had been a cardinal "no"; Israelis allowed greater U.S. involvement, and Palestinian accepted territory not abutting Jerusalem.
In a telling sign of the renewed U.S. role, it was President Clinton's top envoy, Dennis Ross, who announced the resumption of peace talks, flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Ross, who said the peace talks would resume in Washington after the four-day Muslim Eid al-Adhha holiday beginning March 16, said the sides are committed to work in the spirit of partnership and mutual confidence.
The accelerated pace — aiming for the outline of a permanent agreement by May, and for a full-fledged deal by Sept. 13 — was nonetheless fraught with issues that could sideline an agreement.
The sides are far apart on the status of Jerusalem, the future of Jewish settlements and the status of Palestinian refugees.
Still, the seriousness each side attached to renewing the talks was underscored by their major reversals.
Arafat had suspended the talks early last month because of details of an interim Israeli troop withdrawal from 6.1 percent of the West Bank.
The Palestinians wanted the withdrawal to include three West Bank suburbs that abutted Jerusalem, a pullback that would enhance his stake in the disputed city. Israel resisted, offering the Palestinians unpopulated patches of land. Arafat said if he could not trust the Israelis on relatively minor matters, there was no way he could work with them on the major issues.
anonymity, said Barak had handed Arafat a map featuring 10 percent of the West Bank, out of which Arafat could choose the 6.1 percent he wanted. The new map includes populous areas near, but not adjoining, Jerusalem.
Under U.S. pressure, Arafat backed down. Palestinian officials, speaking on condition of
Foreign Minister David Levy said the withdrawal would be soon.
Barak's concession is a deeper U.S. involvement, which in the past has forced Washington to
back off its uncritical support for Israel for a more neutral stance.
Levy insisted the United States did not determine what his country does, but acknowledged the negotiations would alternate between Washington and the Mideast.
Barak: Resumes talks with Yassir Arafat
Palestinian officials, who have favored active U.S. involvement ever since it led to Clinton's virtual endorsement of Palestinian statehood in December 1998, said Ross would attend every meeting. The Palestinian and Israeli leaders both face pressure to reach a final deal.
Arafat has staked his reputation on declaring statehood by Sept. 13, but fears the violence — and the total collapse of peace — that a unilateral declaration would entail. A Palestinian threat last week to assume authority in areas now under joint control prompted warnings by Israel that it outgunned the Palestinians.
Barak, who had been banking on what he perceived as a more straightforward peace treaty with Syria, saw those ambitions collapse about Syria's insistence on a prior commitment to withdraw from the Golan Heights — and the ensuing escalation of violence in Lebanon.
Off-duty firefighter kills four
Rescue workers shot by gunman during house fire
The Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Firefighters responding to a house fire yesterday were ambushed by an off-duty Memphis firefighter who stepped out of the garage and began shooting, authorities said. Two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were killed, and a woman was found dead in the garage.
The suspected gunman, Fred Williams, was wounded and was undergoing surgery. Police Director Walter E. Crews said. A bystander also was wounded, but not seriously.
Williams had just returned to
work as a firefighter this week after an extended leave on disability, Crews said. The suspect did not work at the same station as the men who were killed, but J.C. Fleming, deputy director of the Fire Department, said they probably knew each other from working the same shift.
"We don't expect this. We're here to fight fires." Fire Chief HJ.Pickett said. "You want to say it's part of the job, but it's not."
Williams did not live in the house, and his relationship to the woman found dead in the garage was unclear, Crews said. Authorities also were uncertain how the woman was killed and whether the fire was set to cover up her death.
Firefighters were called to the home just before 1 p.m. When they arrived, witnesses said, a man came out of the garage firing a
shotgun and shouting, "Get away! Get away!"
Firefighters Lt. Javier Lerma and Pvt. William Blakemore were killed. Sheriff's Deputy Rupert Peete was shot in his patrol car as he responded to the report of the shooting, authorities said. His car crashed through a fence.
Memphis police officers then arrived and tried to get the gunman to put down his weapon. When he refused, "one of our officers got into a gun battle and the suspect was shot," Crews said.
Before firefighters arrived, neighbors reported seeing smoke coming from the house and alerted the suspect, but he said everything was fine, according to authorities. Soon after, deputies and firefighters arrived and were ambushed.
The fire was put out within a couple of hours.
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German baby slot offers anonymity to mothers seeking to give up babies
BERLIN — This is a story Germans don't want to see repeated: A 28-year-old mother was convicted of manslaughter yesterday for killing three infants shortly after their birth because she was too overwhelmed to care for them.
In the northern city of Hamburg, a group is trying to prevent a repetition of the tragedy by introducing a "baby slot" where mothers can safely — and anonymously — leave unwanted infants without fear of prosecution.
Although criticized by some conservatives, the project, to be launched in three weeks, has been widely praised, prompting cities throughout Germany to consider implementing similar programs.
It involves a baby slot, to be located near a train station in a poor section of Hamburg. When a buzer is rung, a door opens and a platform is lowered to receive the baby. The door then closes and the baby is lowered into a warm bed. A sensor then alerts health care workers.
Baby drop-off programs such as this are rare. Similar 4-year-old
In the United States, Alabama, Minnesota, Georgia and Texas have local programs protecting the identities of women who give up their babies, but they still must hand them directly to health care workers.
Activists think the anonymity of the Hamburg baby slot will encourage frightened parents to give up their babies rather than leave them in unsafe locations. The program was devised after city officials reported five infants abandoned in 1999. Nationwide, officials say an average of 20 babies are abandoned each year; half die.
Babies left in the baby slot will be given medical attention and then go to a foster family. Mothers will have eight weeks to decide if they want to return and claim their babies, although activists say experience shows that is unlikely.
"The mothers are very alone. There's nobody who helps them; they can't talk with anyone," said Juergen Moyisch, a manager of Sternipark, the youth aid group
programs have reported success in Budapest, Hungary, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
The project has been criticized by conservative politicians who say any mother who leaves a baby should be prosecuted. But parents only face criminal action in Germany if they endanger a child.
"There are important objections, but we have to deal with the lives of the babies," said Herbert Wiedermann, who heads the city's child and family welfare department, which has contributed $25,000 to the $125,000 project. "We have come to the conclusion that we want to do everything to save the baby."
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Sternipark hopes its Hamburg project will give women a safe way to abandon their babies.
"It's the last chance for some babies, and we want to give them this chance." Movisch said.
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