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The University Daily Kansar
Monday, February 7, 2000
Nation/World
First lady makes run for New York senate seat official
The Associated Press
PURCHASE, N.Y. — With the president beside her and 2,000 supporters chanting her name, Hillary Rodham Clinton formally launched her campaign yesterday to become a U.S. senator from New York, a state she has lived in only a month.
The race for the seat fellow Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan will vacate is likely to pit Clinton against New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in what could be one of the most flamboyant political campaigns in memory.
No other first lady has ever run for public office.
"I am honored today to
announce my candidacy for the U.S. Senate from New York." Clinton said as shouts of "Hillary! Hillary!" ran through a university gymnasium not far from her new home in the northern suburbs of New York City.
"I may be new to the neighborhood, but I'm not new to your concerns," she said, while President Clinton, her mother and daughter sat behind her.
The president is said to be one of his wife's top advisers as she resumes the career she put aside to help him capture the White House.
Recalling a speech she made at her college commencement at Wellesley in 1969, Clinton said, "I
often return to one thing I said
back then, that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible. I still believe that today. We can do what seems impossible if we have the vision, the passion and the will to do it together."
Clinton described her commitment to
Clinton: Trails Giuliani by slight margin in N.Y. polls
described her commitment to better schools, bet
ter health care and gun control. But she also took pains to describe herself as a new Democrat.
"I don't believe that government is the source of all our problems or the solutions to them," she said.
Her remarks were preceded by tributes from Moynihan, Sen. Charles Schumer and Reps. Nita Lowey of Westchester and Charles Rangel of Harlem, who joined her on stage during her speech and stayed after to shake hands with supporters.
Recent polls have shown Giuliani with a slight lead against Clinton and running even with her among women voters. That's a far cry from a year ago when sympathy
was strong because of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and polls showed her well ahead of the mayor.
On morning talk shows yesterday, Giuliani reminded viewers of Clinton's late arrival to New York politics.
"My record of success comes out of my knowledge, experience, background and life experience as a lifetime resident of the state," he said.
"How is it that the Democratic Party can't come up with a candidate for the Senate from the state of New York? What does that say about the Democratic Party?"
Giuliani has not made a formal campaign announcement, but he
HILLARY CLINTON
Born: 1947 in Park Ridge, Ill.
Married: In 1975 to fellow Ilea
Law School graduate Bill Clinton Career: Practiced law during her husband's political career in Arkansas, concentrating on public education and women's and children's rights.
Family: Daughter Chelsea, born 1980
Source: www.biography.com
came close on ABC's "This Week," one of the five TV talk shows he appeared on yesterday.
When asked if he planned to run, he said: "Looks that way."
Another MD-83 jet malfunctions
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — An Alaska Airlines MD-83 jetliner returned to Reno's airport shortly after takeoff Saturday night when the pilot reported problems with the horizontal stabilizer — the third such incident involving that jet model within a week.
The Seattle-bound jet's problems were similar to those discussed by pilots in the tense minutes before Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Jan. 31.
The cause of that accident, in which 88 people died, has not been determined.
On Tuesday, an American Airlines MD-83 had trouble with its horizontal stabilizer after takeoff from Phoenix. It returned safely to the airport.
Alaska Airlines does not plan to ground its 35 MD-82 jetliners or to make any unscheduled maintenance checks, said Jack Evans, a spokesman for the Seattle-based airline.
"We obviously understand there's some stress out there," he said. "Despite the accident, we're launching about 400 flights a day and trying to conduct the normal side of our business."
The horizontal stabilizer is a wing-like part on the tail manipulated by the pilot to provide balance along the entire fuselage. An MD-83 stabilizer is about 40 feet wide, according to Boeing.
Alaska Airlines believes the Reno problem occurred because pilots were being overly cautious and running the stabilizer through several complete up-and-down cycles before takeoff, which overheated the motors, Evans said.
The Seattle-bound jet, Flight 631, left Reno/'Tahoe International Airport at about 7 p.m. Saturday. It headed back after seven or eight minutes when the pilot reported that the motors that controlled the stabilizer were operating improperly, Evans said.
Federal Aviation Administration officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment on the flight.
22 passengers freed from hijacked Afghan jet
The Associated Press
LONDON — The Afghan passenger airliner hijackers forced on a tense journey across Central Asia and Europe landed at London's Stansted Airport late last night. So far there have been no reported injuries.
The Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 tazed to a secluded spot about a half-mile from the main terminal. Police and emergency vehicles assembled nearby.
The plane was seized shortly after take off about 11:30 a.m. yesterday while on a domestic flight from the Afghan capital of Kabul to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The plane made stops in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Russia before arriving in London just after 8 o'clock last night.
Similar releases took place at the plane's
The hijackers released nine passengers in Moscow, but made no political demands, said Russian security service spokesman Alexandr Zdanovich.
refueling stops in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan.
Russian news reports said there were 131 passengers and nine crew aboard before the release in Moscow, but other sources said there were as many as 160 aboard.
Afghan diplomats arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo-1 airport about 90 minutes after the plane landed, and Russian news agencies said they were negotiating with the biackers.
Zdanovich said the hijackers had only asked for food, the plane's toilets to be cleaned and refueling. He said the plane was headed for Western Europe, but had no specifics.
One diplomat, who declined to give his name, said the hijackers were seeking the release of a prisoner from the Afghan city of Kandahar.
Ten passengers were released in Uzbekistan, the hijacked plane's first stop, according to an Afghan opposition spokesman, identified only as Abdullah. Another three were released in Kazakstan.
Terrorists hijack Afghan passenger plane
Maggie Curry/KANSAN
Russian tanker seized for illegally transporting Iraqi oil
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Tests confirm a Russian tanker seized by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf was carrying Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. economic embargo, said Defense Secretary William Cohen yesterday.
The Volga-Neft-147 was being taken to Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the Omiani government will determine the fate of the merchant vessel and its crew, Cohen said while flying back from Germany, where he attended a European security conference.
Cohen also disclosed that an Iraqi
naval officer was on board the ship when it was seized by U.S. Navy SEALs.
The tests were completed yesterday on samples of oil from the tanker that was seized Wednesday because of suspicions it was carrying Iraqi oil.
"They do reveal that the oil was from Iraq," Cohen said. "But the government of Oman will make a determination as to what they will do with the ship itself. That's up to the Omanis at this point."
He said the Russians were informed of results of the tests, but he was unaware of any immediate
response from Moscow.
Asked what effect the development might have on U.S.-Russian ties, he said he didn't think it would have any impact.
Cohen pointed out that the ship was privately owned, and not the property of the government. Moscow had protested the seizure and demanded the vessel's release.
The tanker ignored U.S. Navy demands when it was ordered to stop on Wednesday, so armed Navy SEALs were dispatched by helicopter to board and seize the vessel, the Pentagon said Saturday.
U. S. officials had said earlier that
the russian crew did not resist the Navy SEALs Wednesday and cooperated with U.S. Navy personnel involved.
Once the SEALs were on board, the Russian crew cooperated, and no shots were fired, a Pentagon official said Saturday.
Russia, which maintained that the oil was from Iran, long has supported steps that would lead to the eventual lifting of the U.N. economic embargo against Iraq.
Officials in Washington said they merely were enforcing the embargo against Iraq in ordering the seizure,
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