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DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — A camouflage-clad Sen. John Kerry went goose hunting yesterday while President Bush paid a call on the archbishop of a heavily Catholic battleground state, a clash of symbolism in a tight race for the White House.
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Unimpressed with Kerry's shotgun-toting excursion, Vice President Dick Cheney accused Kerry of donning an "October disguise" to keep his record on gun issues hidden from the voters.
Twelve days before the election, an Associated Press survey among likely voters had the race as a statistical tie, 49 percent for the Massachusetts senator and
46 for the man in the White House.
The nominal three-point margin was inside the survey's margin of error.
The same AP-Ipsos Public Affairs survey produced a tie on the question of preferred congressional leadership, 47 percent favoring Democrats and 46 percent for Republicans. That pointed toward problems for Democrats, struggling to gain the 12 seats they need to win back the majority they lost a decade ago.
In the presidential race, the AP survey depicted a country at a crossroads.
Fifty-one percent support the president's conduct of foreign policy and the war on terror. But
voters are split on which man would do the better job in the war on Iraq, and Kerry is viewed as better able to stimulate job growth.
More than half of those surveyed, 56 percent, said the nation was headed in the wrong direction, a danger signal for any incumbent.
Other recent polls show a similarly close race, with Bush and Kerry battling over about a dozen states that remain competitive with less than two weeks of campaigning to go.
Kerry's hunting excursion in Boardman, Ohio, was a classic of a campaign genre, the photop. So, too, Bush's stop at St. John's Church Rectory in Downington, Pa., where he met
with Cardinal Justin Rigali. Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia.
Images counted for much. words less.
Kerry told reporters he had bagged a goose, but by the account of his own aide, that wasn't the point.
It's important that voters "get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy." Mike McCurry said of the 60-year-old Massachusetts senator.
Kerry strolled past television cameras on his return from a two-hour hunting trip, wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun under his arm. A hunting companion carried the bird the senator said he had shot.
Reporters never got a glimpse of Bush's meeting with the spiritual leader of Catholics in a state where 23 percent of voters practice the faith.
But photographers were briefly permitted inside the 20-minute meeting between the two men, good enough to record the image the president's re-election campaign wanted.
Apart from his meeting with the archbishop, Bush delivered a sharp attack on Kerry's plan to expand health care, insisting it would mean "bigger government with higher costs."
Kerry has repeatedly denied the big government charge, and says Americans would be free to choose their coverage from competing private plans.
Rangers begin dramatic rescue at Yosemite
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Rangers attempted a dramatic helicopter rescue Thursday of two climbers on a snowy mountain and struggled to remove the ice-encrusted bodies of two Japanese hikers after an unexpected early blizzard swept through the Sierra.
The deaths occurred on El Capitan, a 3,200-foot granite mountain at Yosemite National Park, following a fierce blizzard that stranded nearly two
dozen hikers and climbers across Northern California. Other than the two deaths, all of them were found or rescued.
Paul Bargetto was part of a four-person group that had been missing since Sunday. They were spotted from the air
"Oh, thank God, thank God. This is the greatest day of my life," rejoiced Rita Bargetto-Snider after receiving word that her brother, Paul Bargetto, was apparently safe after becoming stranded at a 9,400-foot-elevation lake east of Fresno.
Thursday, and all appeared to be in good shape, authorities said.
A rescue team was lowered to the ground and quickly reached the stranded hikers, who are members of a California winemaking family.
About a dozen friends and family members were on hand ready to greet the men, none of whom needed hospitalization.
"Once the conditions got overwhelming, they stayed put and rationed their food and kept warm. They saved themselves," said Jenna Endres, one
of the rescuers.
On El Capitan, the survivors spent the night on a portable ledge secured high above the valley floor. A team of 12 began trying to reach them late Wednesday, and renewed the efforts Thursday.
asked for extra supplies but apparently didn't need any additional help; and one who was rescued off the mountain Wednesday.
A separate crew prepared to remove the bodies of the Japanese climbers - a man and a woman.
Seven people in all were stranded on El Capitan by the storm: the two Japanese climbers; the two being rescued Thursday; another couple who
A half-mile high and a mile wide, El Capitan casts an imposing shadow over the glacier-sculpted Yosemite Valley.
The first successful ascent took 45 days, but today most climbers need three or four days to make it to the top—clinging to barely visible outcroppings and prying their way up cracks invisible from the valley floor.
3 charged with voting in Kansas, Missouri in 2002
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Federal prosecutors charged three Kansas City-area residents Thursday with using fraudulent records to vote in both Kansas and Missouri in the Nov. 5, 2002, general election.
James Scherzer, 68, of Kansas City, Kan.; Lorraine Goodrich, 39, of Prairie Village, Kan.; and
Leslie McIntosh, 67, of Kansas City, Mo., were each charged with giving false residency information to elections officials.
In each case, they registered to vote using different residence addresses in both states and signed forms at the polling places swearing they lived at those addresses, authorities said
The U.S. Attorneys' offices in western Missouri and Kansas are
investigating the cases, which each carry a potential sentence of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
McIntosh didn't immediately return a phone call to his home seeking comment, and calls to listings for Scherzer and Goodrich were not answered.
states during a primary election in 2002, and both the primary and general election in 2000. Graves also said Scherzer used the Missouri address to obtain a Missouri driver's license and to register a vehicle.
Todd Graves, the U.S. attorney for western Missouri, said Scherzer also voted in both
Eric Melgren, the U.S. attorney for Kansas, said McIntosh also voted in both states during the 2000 general election.
The charge against McIntosh was announced during a press conference Thursday morning where Melgren, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and local elections officials said they were stepping up efforts to prevent election fraud or voter disenfranchisement.
Neither has been charged
with those crimes.
Castro injures knee,arm in public
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA — Cuban President Fidel Castro's advancing age — and ultimately his mortality — were brought home yesterday after he fractured a knee and arm when he tripped and fell at a public event.
In a communist society where the 78-year-old leader has played a larger-than-life role for more than four decades, the tumble was the latest reminder that Cuba's commander in chief is an aging man who will not live forever
— with an elderly brother as his designated successor.
"I'm all in one piece," Castro declared on state television Wednesday night. when Castro tripped on a concrete step while returning to his seat after an hour-long speech in the central city of Santa Clara.
A medical examination early yesterday confirmed Castro suffered a broken left knee and a hairline fracture in his upper right arm, said an official notice carried by state media.
"His general health is good, and he is in excellent spirits," it said, adding that Castro hoped to be "back in place" soon.
"He asked that it be made known he is in condition to keep overseeing fundamental questions in close cooperation with government and party leaders," the statement said.
Parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcon, who has been by Castro's side more than four decades, said yesterday he was confident the president would recover quickly.
"He is a man of much strength," Alarcon told international journalists in Havana.
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