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Thursday, November 9.1995
--any elective office in 1996," Powell said, his wife, Alma, at his side for a crowded ballroom news conference in suburban Alexandria. Va.
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Powell retreats from candidacy
WASHINGTON — Colin Powell ruled out a 1996 bid for the White House yesterday and said he wouldn't be a candidate for vice president. He declared himself a Republican but wouldn't commit to voting for the GOP nominee next year.
The Associated Press
the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the presidential competition required a calling he didn't yet hear. He left open the possibility of a political future in another campaign.
"I'm ruling out a run for the
"i'm ruling out a run for the
in 1996 or running for
As a new Black Republican, he said, "I believe I can help the party of Lincoln move once again closer to the spirit of Lincoln."
While standing aside in 1996, Powell did not rule himself out of political competition entirely.
Powell said that the prospect of a presidential bid did not stir in him the commitment and the passion he had felt during his 35 years as a soldier.
Powell said that family concerns were paramount to him, but that he was not concerned about his personal security. Alma Powell said that she had concerns about his security, but that her worry on that score did not influence his decision.
Word of Powell's decision caused a flurry of political activity. GOP candidates sought to portray the news as a boost to their efforts, and other Republicans awaited hints of future plans.
The biggest immediate beneficiary appeared to be Dole, whose status as the leader of the GOP field would have been immediately challenged by a Powell candidacy.
"The field is now clear, and the race is now between a respected Washington insider, Bob Dole, and an outsider, me," said former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, who has languished in the polls.
As they awaited official word from Powell, members of draft-Powell organizations voiced disappointment that the retired general would not be a candidate.
"I consider him a great American," said Tim Bush, who led the draft-Powell movement in New Hampshire. "I think really the country is the loser."
Two more held in Rabin assassination
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TEL AVIV, Israel — The leader of an anti-Arab group and another suspect were arrested in connection with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, police said yesterday, reinforcing suspicions of a right-wing conspiracy to kill the prime minister.
Police suspect the militant leader, Avishal Raviv, knew about the plan to kill Rabin.
the kach group founded by the slain American rabbi, Meir Kahane. He told the court, without specifying, that Rabin's confessed killer had made vague threats, but that he never took him seriously.
Raviv heads Eyal, an offshoot of
In an interview with the Yediot Ahronot newspaper shortly before his arrest Monday, Raviv said that the confessed gunman was very close to the members of Eyal but was not an active member of the group.
The identity of the second suspect
and details of the arrests were not released. Israel radio said that the second suspect also belonged to Eyal, which has about two dozen members.
In all, four people have been arrested in Rabin's killing; Yigal Amr, one of his brothers, Raviv, and the unidentified suspect.
Police have been investigating whether the confessed killer, a 25-year-old law student, was part of a right-wing conspiracy. Police said that they also were checking
whether Amir's brother Hagai, 27, was a member of another Kach offshoot, the Kahane Chal group.
Vigal Amir was captured at the scene right after Rabin was shot and said he acted alone. His brother was arrested Sunday as a suspected accomplice.
Israeli legal experts were exploring the possibility of taking harsh legal steps against the radicals, including jailing them without charges — a tactic previously used against Palestinians.
Star-crossed teens commit suicide in Miami
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they attended. Neither could swim.
MIAMI — Two eighth-grade sweethearts, forbidden to see each other, apparently drowned themselves in a canal, leaving suicide notes that told of their undying love, their desperation and their hope of being together in another world.
The bodies of Maryling Flores, 13, and Christian Davila, 14, were found on Tuesday in the murky, weed-choked waterway just a few blocks from the school
"I can't go on living. I've lost Maryling," Davila said in a note his parents found on Sunday. "I'm escaping from the realm of reality into the darkness of the unknown. Because reality is, I can't be with Maryling."
Flores left more than six suicide notes, police said.
"You'll never be able to understand the love between me and Christian," she said in one addressed to her parents. "You
don't let me see him in this world, so we're going to another place. Please don't cry for me, this is what I want. I want to feel happy, because I'm going to a place where I can be with Christian."
Flores' mother had forbidden her to see Davila, police said, but they would not say why.
Flores had told friends she might be pregnant, and her mother feared the same thing, police said. However, an autopsy showed she was not pregnant.
The bodies were found a few
hundred yards apart, but the canal has a swift current when the flood-control gates are open.
Police would not identify the parents, and the principal at the teens' school would not talk to reporters.
In his note, Christian quoted from an 1892 Italian opera, "The Players," by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. It's the story of a man who kills his wife and her lover. Christian wrote: "Applaud, friends, the comedy is over. I love you all."
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