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Subjects mourn deal
of Morocco's Hass;
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — World
leaders walked solemnly through
screaming crowds in this ancient
North African capital yesterday to
honor Hassan II, the 38-year king of
a poor, placid nation committed to
peace in a tumultuous region.
Hundreds of thousands of Mo
roccans, wailing and chanting in the
July sun, watched the royal cortege
and its escort of Western, European,
Middle Eastern, African and Asian
heads of state, including President
Clinton.
Hassan, who died Friday at 70,
was seen as a persuasive broker of
compromise, an Arab moderate who
calmed waters much in the way of
King Hussein of Jordan, who died
less than six months earlier.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and President Ezer Weizman joined
Arab leaders at the funeral, signaling
confidence that Hassan’s 35-year-old
son, now King Mohamed VI, would
follow his lead as peacemaker.
Hassan’s coffin rolled slowly atop
an army truck, under a rich green
cloth embroidered in gold with vers
es from the Koran. Four white hors
es drew a symbolic empty carriage
in front, flanked by the black-clad
Royal Guard.
Family members, heads of state
and guests walked slowly behind
along the two-and-half-mile route
from the Royal Palace to the mau
soleum where Hassan’s remains
were laid to rest by those of his fa
ther, Mohamed V.
The new king, in flowing white
robes and a red fez, moved imper
turbably forward despite the con
stant press of near-hysterical
Clinton pays respect to h
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — With
a slight bow before a draped cas
ket, President Clinton paid final re
spects yesterday to King Hassan II,
for two generations a partner with
the United States in Middle East
peace efforts.
Later, under a hot sun, Clinton
joined in a three-mile funeral pro
cession, his silver-haired presence
easily visible among the throngs of
white-robed, fez-wearing Moroc
cans around him.
Moroccan television estimated
the crowd at 2 million. Many faint
ed from the intense heat.
Clinton was among more than a
score of foreign dignitaries paying
tribute to the monarch, whose
death Friday ended a 38-year reign.
Before viewing the casket, Clin
ton joined other foreigny
a room off the palace’s spj
marble courtyard. He end
informal conversation will |
President Jacques Chirac;!
dullah of Jordan; Israelip
Ezar Weizman and primen
Ehud Barak; the crownp
Kuwait; and President
Diouf of Senegal.
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similar encounters with P
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt,fi
fan leader Yasser
Britain’s Prince Charles.
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it more time.”
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mourners who surged against po
lice lines. Clinton walked next to
him along the route.
As the cortege passed, crowds
chanted, “This is the hour of God.”
Human tides had blocked the
roads into Rabat, as mourners
walked through the night from out
lying cities and distant villages. Po
lice estimated that more than a mil
lion people headed toward the
capital in buses or on foot.
From the high-rise port of
Casablanca to the old, walled cities
of Fez and Marrakesh, to oases half
lost in the Sahara Desert, Moroccans
chanted their grief, waving portraits
of Hassan and their new king.
In Rabat, volunteer team
bled to collect faintingvict
comt' In emotion andlfl
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ing under a palm tree by :\
palace with three fnenc
shared his thoughts.
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lion inhabitants, their saiq
tinged with anxiety over thee
the hands of an untried sui
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East and North Africa headtcl
promising new paths,
tered Moroccan economyfat^
pressures, with debt, drotj
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Co
lumbia may have been leaking hydrogen fuel all the
way to orbit last week from one of its main engines,
NASA said yesterday.
If it proves to be a leak as photographs suggest, the
engine could have shut down abruptly if more fuel had
seeped out, resulting in a never-before-attempted
emergency landing within minutes of
launch, either in Florida or West Africa.
As it turned out, Columbia made it
safely to orbit Friday under the control
of Air Force Col. Eileen Collins, the first
woman to command a U.S. spaceship.
The shuttle, carrying five astronauts
and the world’s biggest and most pow
erful X-ray telescope, fell seven miles
short of its intended orbit. A fuel leak
could explain why the engines shut
down one second or so early.
NASA’s mission operations repre
sentative, Wayne Hale, stressed there is
no proof that one or two cooling tubes
in the nozzle of the right engine were
cracked and leaking hydrogen. Until the
shuttle returns to Earth tomorrow night
"You want them
[the engines] to
operate exactly
down the middle
of the pike because
bad things might
happen."
— Wayne Hale
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and the engine is examined, no one will know for sure,
he said.
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gines, and they have a lot of energy flowing through
that system, you want them to operate exactly down
the middle of the pike because bad things might hap
pen” Hale said.
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DALLAS (AP) — Although
most Americans have no idea
what Gov. George W. Bush thinks
about gun control, education or
any other political issue, the Texas
Republican is the most popular
choice for president, a new na
tional poll indicates.
The governor would beat either
of his Democratic opponents. Vice
President A1 Gore or former Sen.
Bill Bradley, if the nation cast its
votes today, according to The Dal
las Morning News/Bdo Poll.
Nationally, voters give Bush a
47 percent to 32 percent lead over
Gore, and a 46 to 30 percent edge
over Bradley, according to the poll
released in the newspaper’s Sun
day editions.
The telephone survey, conduct
ed July 12-14 by Blum & Weprin
Associates Inc. of New York, ques
tioned 501 registered voters in
Texas and 502 registered voters
across the United States. Both sam
ples have a margin of error of plus
or minus 4.5 percentage points,
meaning the results can vary that
much in either direction.
Only 17 percent of those ques
tioned nationally believe they
knew Bush’s position on most is
sues. Seventy-five percent of those
who answered the poll said they
didn’t know what Bush stands for.
But voters believe Bush, rather
than Gore, can better handle the
“During the course
of this campaign,
there is going to be
ample time to flesh
out positions on
the issues.”
GEORGE
W. BUSH
economy, foreign affairs and de
fense — even though the vice
president has more experience in
those areas.
When Bush supporters were
questioned about the most impor
tant reason for backing him, 22
percent said he has the moral char
acter to be president, 20 percent
said he gives the GOP its best
chance at winning the presidency
and 15 percent said they do not
want to vote for Gore. Fo
percent said they agree wi
on most issues, 10 percent!
has been a good governor;
percent said they liked" 1
former President George Bit
Gore spokesperson Roger-
said he is unconcerned.
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termined by the American! 15
based on who they feel
date is who has the best visitf
the best ideas to lead this®'
into the 21st century,” Ire
“Those are the types of thin?
will decide this election, noif
Bush called the findings’'
start.”
“During the course of#
paign, there is going to be'
time to flesh out positions^
issues,” he said. “And by tit*
the campaign is over,
know where I stand.”
Even in Texas, only 1
spondents said they knew8
stance on hate crimes, guntf
education and abortion. And
who professed familiaritf
their governor’s politics"' 15 '
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