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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 3

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 19B8 Cilf Atlanta ionrnid AND COSTITITION "7 Bhutto's Party Takes Big Lead; She May Gain Power in Pakistan 17 4 4 A 1 t. 11 The Associated Prest ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Benazir Bhutto claimed victory Thursday after partial returns showed her populist party leading in Pakistan's first open National Assembly elections in more than a decade. With 132 of 205 districts reporting, Ms. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had 65 seats in the National Assembly.

Its main rival, the rightist Islamic Democratic Alliance, had 21, and the remaining 30 seats went to independent and minor parties. The nine-party Islamic Democratic Alliance includes loyalists of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the military president who died in a plane crash three months ago. If her party wins a majority in the assembly, Ms. Bhutto likely would be named prime minister, becoming the first woman to lead this Islamic nation. "The victory the PPP achieved is because of the selfless sacrifices, the struggle by people of the PPP," Ms.

Bhutto said at a news confer ence after a rally of 8,000 people on the lawn of her family home in the southern city of Larkana. The crowd chanted "Long live Benazir!" and "Benazir, prime minister!" Former Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo, one of Ms. Bhutto's main rivals from the Islamic Democratic Alliance, conceded defeat late Wednesday in his bid for a National Assembly seat "We're on the losing side," he The Associated Press Benazir Bhutto and her stepmother enter a polling place Wednesday in Pakistan's first free elections in years. Her populist parry's strong showing may make Ms. Bhutto the nation's next prime minister.

The Associated Press Charlie Sanders, 10, cries Wednesday after family's trailer in Scott, Ark. A tornado leveled finding his dog's body in the wreckage of his the trailer Tuesday. His family escaped harm. Snow, Twisters Strike the Heartland, Cutting Path of Death and Destruction Punjab state, claimed victory in the race for an assembly seat in Lahore, his hometown, but lost to a Pakistan People's Party member in another district Ms. Bhutto's father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, won the last open election in 1977 by a landslide and prompted a coup by General Zia a few months later.

Mr. Bhutto was convicted of complicity in a murder conspiracy and hanged in 1979. said of his defeat by a Pakistan People's Party candidate in his hometown of Sindhri. He said the Bhutto party had "succeeded very well" nationally. Under Pakistani rules, candidates may contest more than one seat to improve their chance of election but must forfeit all but one.

The vacant seats are contested later in by-elections. Ms. Bhutto's other main rival, Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of 12 Mariel Prisoners on Brink of Deportation son. By Wednesday morning, only about 1,000 customers still were without power, he said. Three of the tornado victims, a couple and their infant son, were killed when their mobile home in Scott was battered by the last of the tornadoes to hit the state, authorities said.

They were identified as Randall Dycus, 24, Kristi Dycus, 22, and their son, about 1. Robert W. McCain and Juanita A. McCain, both 62, died when wind overturned their van on Interstate 40 near Lonoke, and Louis Breckel, 68, was killed in Van Bu-ren County when the storm destroyed his home, authorities said. William Brown, 25, of Scott appeared resigned Wednesday as he viewed the twisted remains of his home, which the tornado lifted off its slab.

"We'll rebuild," he said as he waited for his insurance agent. "Sure, we'll rebuild. This is home." Next to the house sat his pickup truck, its windows blown out and a stick almost an inch in diameter imbedded in the dashboard. As the violent cold front churned on, midday temperatures in parts of Kansas and Missouri were 30 to 40 degrees lower Wednesday than they were the day, before, and many areas got the first snowfall of the season, the National Weather Service said. At least three people were were reported dead in accidents on snowy roads, and a woman was electrocuted after lightning downed a power line in Rockford, 111.

Cold, wind and snow led to school closings in several states. Ten inches of snow fell Wednesday morning in International Falls, and the weather service said there were hazardous conditions in much of Minnesota because of snow and blowing snow. "We saw it coming, but there was nothing we could do," said Police Chief Darnell Scott of Lonoke in central Arkansas, where two people were killed and 30 houses suffered heavy damaged. At the height of the storm, 16,000 customers of Arkansas Power Light Co. lost power, said company spokesman Jerol Garri From Wire Reports SCOTT, Ark.

National Guardsmen helped keep order Wednesday after up to 10 tornadoes churned through Arkansas, killing six people, damaging scores of homes and businesses and temporarily knocking out power to 16,000 customers. The twisters destroyed or damaged 240 homes and mobile homes eight businesses, said Gary Talley, spokesman for the state Of-. fice of Emergency Services. No monetary estimate of the damage was available Wednesday. Seven counties were declared disaster areas by Gov.

William J. Clinton, who set aside $350,000 in state emergency funds. At least 49 tornadoes touched down Tuesday night in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa. A seventh person was killed in southwest Missouri. The cold front that unleashed tornadoes spread eastward Wednesday, bringing up to 10 inch-.

es of snow, winds topping 50 mph and wind-chill readings well below zero. by 3,800 Mariel detainees in Oak-dale, and at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta last fall. Meanwhile, prisoner advocate groups in Miami and Atlanta plan to ask federal judges to stop the deportations, which if carried out would mark the first time Cubans have been deported to their communist homeland since May 1985, The Miami Herald reported. "There is a chance if we all speak with one united voice here and explain the merits of our case," said Rafael Penalver, chairman of the Task Force of Cuban American Citizen Organizations. Mr.

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