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Bush Continued from page noise * poauiion 69 JOSH OftRQJM You are Nearing the End of sour quest, Russ. You will find the enchanted guitar in a darh cave, which lice over the hille and far away, fl mighty Roch hero guardo the door, and he will make you answer three queetione. ans thing unladen afi Swallows ? by Will UoycA Show and Rodeo lion booklets. “President Bush is a m down-to-earth gentleman i| mixes well with Texas cati men,” Riser said. Despite Secret Service#}! ings, people pressed agac security rails for a chance shake Bush’s hand. At one paint, seeing ticular Ford F-250 tl liked. Bush opened the (to and dove behind the wheel pose for pictures. Despite strict security,son visitors said they are loots forward to the campaign trail “I’ve never had the chain to shake a president’s hani said Sara Bazan, owner of| RB Ranch in Di I ley, Texas was so excited.” Constitution Continued from page Negroponte Continued from page 1 “I’m very concerned about world affairs, and I feel that the U.N. is playing a very important role in the world as we see it today,” Silvia said. “I think this speech was a very significant event.” Negroponte said the United Nations is pursu ing the war against terror, supporting peacekeep ing operations in Africa, contributing to the World Food Program, mounting an HIV/AIDS initiative worldwide and curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Negroponte said he thinks Japan should be added to the U.N. Security Council, because it pays so much of the United Nation's budget, but does not have a voice on the Security Council. “The Security Council is an institution that reflects the realities of 1945, but there has been pressure over the past 15 to 20 years so that it bet ter reflects the reality of today,” he said. Negroponte said he was pleased with Afghanistan’s adoption of the transitional admin istrative law on March S. which will act as its con stitution until it drafts one itself. “I think it incorporates many important princi ples of democracy,” Negroponte said, "i think the adoption of this transitional law was a step in the right direction.” Graduate student Jackie Mather worked with Negroponte last summer when she was employed at the United Nations, and said she enjoyed the speech and that he touched on all the key current issues “It doesn’t matter who he meets or from what country they are from, he automatically makes them feel at ease,” Mather said. Negroponte said the United Nations is taking steps to ensure peace and democracy worldw ide. “We are making progress." Negroponte said, “not always newspaper progress, perhaps, but his tory book progress, the kind of progress you don’t recycle, but you keep on your shelf.” Primary Continued from page 1 Democratic District 25 rather than risk staying in his old dis trict, which Republicans redrew to include more Republican leaning voters. In Texas, congres sional candidates don’t have to live in the district they represent. Right up to election day, Doggett and his primary oppo nent, former state judge Leticia Hinojosa, kept up their intensive battle on the airwaves and the campaign trail. Doggett had to make himself known in the majority-Latino dis trict, which stretches 350 miles from Austin to Brownsville. Hinojosa, meanwhile, promoted herself as the hometown candi date from Hidalgo County. Hinojosa said voters were turned off by the choppy Spanish Doggett speaks in one of his TV ads. “People are concerned about that,” Hinojosa said. “You can’t always have an interpreter around, and they want to be able to go up and tell you their problems.” Financial support for Doggett poured in from nation al groups of union members, car dealers and teachers in the final days of the race. Doggett has collected more than $2.5 mil lion so far for his campaign. Doggett said he felt good about the endorsements he got from political leaders in the Rio Grande Valley and said Hinojosa’s support in her home community was lacking. “If she were as strong as she pretends to be she would be talking about her accomplish ments rather than slinging mud at me,” Doggett said. enormous influence on theQ backed political process political arena once by Sunnis hut now controlledb a Shiite majority and a bn Kurdish community. Monday’s ceremony, the marble-and-gte Convention Center, a building inside the “Greei Zone” complex housing headquarters of the U.S.-ld coalition, kicked off recital of carefully chossi Quranic verses that urge. Muslims to set aside their dii tcrences. Later, children dressed v Arab, Assyrian and Kurdisheoi t u m e s performed patrV songs. “The Executioner is gos festivities will begin, we# wear colorful clothes now sadness is behind us,’ 1 went song that alluded to Saddait rule. The performance dre- wann applause from roughly21 guests, including L. PaulBremc chief U.S. administrator in loi Of the council’s 25 hers, 21 were present, fc absent were represented deputies. Led by currentcom cil president MohammedB: al-Ulloum. the membersW called forward one at a sign the document, which on an antique wooden t used by Iraq’s first monatt: King Faisal I. 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