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WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation
executives, responding to a congression
Into their election-night mistakes in Flori
yesterday that they will no longer proclaim
until all the polls in a state are closed an
changes in their election process to ave
errors.
The media representatives, speaking tot
Energy and Commerce Committee, also u
gress to enact a uniform poll closing tif
nation, a move they said would end thep
that early calls in Eastern states might infli
pledge,
's top TV ers in the West wh
al inquiry The heads ofY
da, agreed also said they wo
n a winner close elections, d
id pledged tion data and take
aid future tion night debacle
Florida for Al Go
the House later gave Florida
rged Con- Bush. The Assoc
me for the call, but did not m
perception "We are emb
uence vot- Andrew Lack, p
to fix election reports
here polls are still open. absolutely intent on avoiding them and making sure
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox they don't happen again."
ould avoid using exit polls to call Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), the committee chair-
evelop additional sources for elec- man, said he called the hearing to examine flaws in
other steps in response to the elec- the statistical models used by the networks that he
e in which the networks first called said favored the Democrats. But he said he saw "no
re, retracted that decision and then evidence of intentional bias."
and the presidency to George W Some of the news chiefs said there was no credi-
;iated Press made the early wrong ble evidence that early calls affected voters. But all
ake the later call for Bush. welcomed legislation sponsored by Tauzin and Rep.
arrassed by these errors," said Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to make poll closing times
resident of NBC News. "We are uniform around the nation.
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Kansas restores teaching of evolution
Evolution was restored yesterday as a central theory in the state's science
classes, ending 18 months of debate and international ridicule over how Kansas
teaches the origins of man.
The state Board of Education approved the new science standards in a 7-3 vote.
"I believe now that we have science standards that the rest of the world could
look to," board member Carol Rupe said.
The new standards will replace ones adopted in 1999 that omitted references
to many evolutionary concepts as well as the big-bang theory of the creation of
the universe.
Board member Steve Abrams voted against the new standards, arguing that
evolution is a flawed theory and that he isn't espousing any religious doctrine-in
questioning its teaching.
"What I do espouse is that this is not good science Abrams said.
Evolution, a theory developed by Charles Darwin and others, holds that the
Earth is billions of years old and that all life, including humans, evolved frg
simple forms through a process of natural selection.
Some religious fundamentalists and others object to theteaching of evolution,
saying it contradicts the biblical account of creation.
NEW YORK
U.S. attorney opens pardon investigation
Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into President Clinton's last-
minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, a source familiar with the case
said yesterday.
U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White in New York "is trying to determine if there
a transfer of money to buy the pardon," the source told The Associated Press.
Rich's former wife, Denise Rich, has been a major contributor to the Democra-
tic Party, the Senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Clinton Presi-
dential Library Fund.
White is expected to examine bank and telephone records and other docu-
ments to determine whether there was a link between the contributions and Clin-
ton's decision to grant the pardon, the source said.
White, who was appointed to her post by Clinton in 1993, has said the pardon
was granted without consultation with her office, which indicted Rich in 1983.
The Constitution gives presidents the right to grant pardons. But Rich's par-
don, one of 141 granted by Clinton on Jan. 20, his final day in office, has pron
ed sharp bipartisan criticism and hearings by House and Senate committees.
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Civilians may have
distracted sub crew
The admiral investigating the U.S.
submarine collision with a fishing boat
is considering a line of inquiry that
could lead to criminal charges against
the sub's captain or members of his
crew, Navy officials said yesterday.
The officials also said they cannot
rule out the possibility that civilians
aboard the USS Greeneville, including
two at control positions, were a dis-
traction to the crew and contributed to
the sinking of the Japanese fishing
vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Nine
people aboard that boat are missing
and feared dead.
The Navy officials said no evidence of
such a distraction has turned up yet, but
investigators will examine the possibili-
ty. In seeking to determine how the acci-
dent happened, the Navy is considering
an inquiry that could result in charges
against the nuclear-powered submarine's
captain or members of his crew.
WASHINGTON
Freshman confesses
to killing students
A 20-year-old freshman accused of
murdering two fellow deaf students at
Gallaudet University admitted in a
videotaped confession that robbery
was the reason he stabbed one class-
mate to .death and fatally beat the
other, prosecutors said yesterday.
Joseph M. Mesa Jr. of Guam was
ordered held without bond after an
appearance in District of Columbia
Superior Court.
"There is substantial probability that
Mlr. Mesa committed these murders,"
said the hearing commissioner, J. Den-
nis Doyle, who rejected a defense
request that Mesa be released to a
halfway house. A preliminary hearing
was set for Feb. 23.
Mesa is charged with two counts*
felony murder while armed in the deaths
of two 19-year-old freshmen killed
about five months apart at the nation's
only liberal arts university for the deaf.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
Anna' virus suspect
released to parents
Dutch police yesterday arrested*
hacker known as "OnTheFly" a 20-year-
old man who claims he wrote a comput-
er virus that backed up e-mail systems
worldwide by purporting to offer a pho-
tograph of tennis star Anna Kournikova.
Authorities charged him with dam-
aging private property and computer
programs, and sent the man home with
his parents, saying the offense didn't
warrant holding him. A prosec
will decide later whether to seek a'
sentence or a fine.
"The offenses with which he has
been charged aren't enough to hold
him," said police spokesman Robert
Rambonnet, adding that they carry up
to a four-year sentence.
The man's name was withheld under
Dutch privacy regulations, but he was
identified as a resident of the small
town of Sneek, 60 miles northeast of
Amsterdam.
- Compiled from Daily wire reports.
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