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Cable,” he said, the cable system, ^dependent program- rams, local program ’ he said, e a formal annount* s on Jan. 1. s fierce arent >wn that the animal otecting or brooding d not eating them, that the eggs were vn. chier of the Califor- Science said Norell’s inning find.” 3 team found the di- a Gobi Desert site god in Mongolia. yN ief riday • November 4, 1994 THE BATTALION Tin: Battalion • Page 3 CINEMARK THEATRES lb be or not to be: voters undecided WASHINGTON (AP) — Less han a week before Election Day, lolls in several major contests how a remarkably high number if voters are undecided, some re vised by the nasty campaigns, icrne unsure they will vote at all. “You have these intensely neg- h)I hive campaigns on both sides,” laid Democratic media adviser wheniijiandy Grunwald. “People are it knowing what to believe and sp®%e looking for a referee.” Whatever the reason, these |t|indecided voters have made sev- »ral races that loom large in the fight for Senate control extraordi- aarily volatile heading into the lampaign’s final weekend, “It is going to be close but I be lieve Democrats will retain con- k trol of the Senate,” Majority Leader George Mitchell said this Thursday. But he said, “I recog nize the conventional wisdom now appears to be otherwise.” Indeed, Republicans are in creasingly confident of capturing the majority, because computer turnout models designed to weed undecided voters from polling show a major GOP edge. “If a voter is undecided at this point, he or she has made a conscious step away from the in cumbent if there is one in the race, said GOP pollster Ed Goeas. “The question now is whether to vote against the in cumbent or stay home.” The consensus among a dozen pollsters interviewed in recent days is that a good chunk of those who say they are undecided will not vote Tuesday — likely bad news for Democrats. A recent national Times Mir ror survey, for example, found a relatively modest percentage of voters — 10 percent — were un decided when asked which par ty’s candidate they intended to support in House races. “But they are mostly Democ rats who are either going to vote Republican and not ready to ad mit it or Democrats who are stay ing home,” said Times Mirror survey director Andy Kohut. Republicans need to gain sev en seats to capture the Senate majority, and are comfortably ahead in races for Democratic- held seats in Maine, Ohio, Ari zona and Tennessee. The GOP is ahead or highly competitive for Democratic seats in Pennsylvania, Michi gan, Oklahoma, Virginia and a second in Tennessee. And Re publicans have more distant chances at Democratic seats in New Jersey, New Mexico and California. Democrats, on the other hand, are competitive for a GOP-held seat in Minnesota and perhaps one or two others, but the trend has been against them. It is in many of these con tests that polling shows a high ratio of undecided voters. For example: —In Virginia, a new Virginia Commonwealth University poll showed 11 percent undecided in the dead-heat race between Sen. Charles S. Robb and Republican Oliver North. But 60 percent of those backing independent Mar shall Coleman, running a distant third, said they might look else where if they are convinced Cole man can’t win — adding them to the potential undecided pool. In most cases, GOP pollster Bill Mclnturff said “those who say that they are still undecid ed are not undecided. They are not voters.” Still, if they say they plan to vote, and are from a group that tends to vote — such as the elder ly, or the college-educated, poll sters cannot discount them in close races. Instead, they are factored into a computerized turnout models that take into account age and other demographic data, level of education, intensity of support for one candidate or the other and other factors. Islamic militants chide Arafat at funeral Palestinian leader mocked at political memorial service ipinion editor Photo editor Sports editor ’/e//fe editor phnnie Dube, Amanda 1 Kari Whitley n, Tiffany Moore, Stacy neron, BlaVe Griggs, ley Stavinoha , Stewart Doreen and \ja Henderson, Erin Hill, rge Nasr, Elizabeth Preston, ley 2 Oleson Friday during the fall mmer sessions (excepl Second class postage McDonald Building, fexas A&M Universily Journalism. Editorial 'M1.TAMU.EDU. > or endorsement by call 845-2696. For > Reed McDonald and -2678. M students to pick up a 0 per semester, $40 p£ f Discover or American GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Islamic militants knocked off Yasser Arafat’s head dress, called him a traitor and threw him out of a mosque funeral Thursday in his worst political embarrassment as head of the Palestinian government. Enraged mourners fired guns wildly into the air as a phalanx of police guards whisked Arafat away from the chaotic ser vice for Hani Abed, a militant leader killed by a car bomb the fundamentalists blamed on Israel. “Arafat is a collaborator!” shouted mem bers of the extremist Islamic Jihad move ment as Arafat was shoved out a back door of the Omari mosque and into the pouring down rain. The scene underscored the growing ex tremist opposition Arafat has faced in the Gaza Strip since Palestinian self-rule began in May. ThePLO leader is wedged between Israeli demands to crack down on Muslim funda mentalists responsible for deadly attacks on Israeli civilians, and the need to win their support for self-rule. Arafat, who had just returned from a re gional economic conference in Morocco, came straight from the border to pay his respects at the funeral of Abed, 35. Abed died Wednesday after a bomb ex ploded when he opened the trunk of his car. He had been detained by Palestinian police for 18 days in June on suspicion of helping plan an attack at the Erez border crossing into Israel in which two soldiers were killed. It was the first attack on Israeli soldiers af ter autonomy began. Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Abdullah Shami said only Israel could do such an ex pert job of rigging the car bomb that killed Abed. He demanded that Palestinian police protect Islamic leaders and threatened swift retaliation. “Our bullets will find a way to hit settlers and soldiers everywhere,” Shami told re porters at a wake in Gaza City’s Sheik Rad- wan neighborhood. At the mosque service, militants blocked Arafat from reaching Abed’s body, wrapped in a blanket on a large wooden board. His trademark black-and-white headdress was pulled off, and bodyguards then rushed Arafat out a back door. Outside the mosque, Islamic Jihad sup porters fired their weapons into the air and shouted, “Get out of here, Arafat, get out!” and “You are not our leader! We are the peo ple and we reject you!” Islamic militant leaders met with Arafat later Thursday and apologized for the be havior of the crowd, saying they were out siders and did not represent their move ments’ sentiments. Arafat aides said the PLO chief was deeply shaken by the hostility. Sufian Abu Zaydeh, an Arafat spokesman, said the car bombing could push the Palestinians to the brink of civil war. “This is very grave. We are moving toward a Lebanonization of the Gaza Strip,” he said. Abu Zaydeh said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had eroded Arafat’s standing by strik ing in PLO-ruled territory. We hope you enjoy IcEHo USE; as mg- asyov enjoy if responsibly. bio ttctyims! 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