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...roar of more than 10,000 cheering voices vibrated in the air as the train pulled into view of Gujranwala, a farming and industrial center in the northeast state of Punjab. Red-black-and-green banners embossed with the arrow of the Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.) fluttered overhead. The chant "Benazir, Prime Minister!" crescendoed as Benazir Bhutto, 35, stepped onto the platform. Holding high the party's manifesto, the candidate declared, "You have a chance to decide the future. Vote for the arrow aimed at the heart of injustice...
...most impressive element of Bush's victory was its geographic sweep. To his solid base in the South, he added much of the Middle West, parts of the Northeast, the Mountain States and California. Though the G.O.P. carried several large states by thin margins, Bush demonstrated that there is still considerable strength in the theory of a "Republican lock" on the Electoral College. For a generation Republican presidential candidates have enjoyed an advantage in the distribution of electoral votes, and Bush exploited that benefit...
ELECTION Day has come and gone, with its results surprising to only the most tenacious idealists. George Bush can finally add President of the United States to his already formidable resume. He won every state in the South, most states in the Northeast, all but a few states in the Midwest and virtually every Western state including California. It may not amount to a mandate for him, but it does equal a monumental rejection of the Democratic Party's national agenda...
...death figure of 600 would be China's highest since July 28, 1976, when 242,000 people were killed in the northeast China city of Tangshan in the nation's worst natural disaster in modern times...
Harvard's computer team won the Northeast Regional Scholastic Programming Contest on Saturday for the third year in a row and again qualified to compete in the international finals...