Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English, 00-11-07

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From: The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation at <http://www.cybc.com.cy/>

CONTENTS

[01] HEADLINES

[02] US RESULTS

[03] GORE CAMPAIGN

[04] BUSH CAMPAIGN

[05] BRITS FLOODS

[06] GENEVA TODAY

[07] CLINTON CYPRUS

[08] DENKTASH THREATS

[09] FATALITY

[10] ACCIDENT CRITICAL

[11] HEARTBREAKER

[12] WEATHER TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2000

[01] HEADLINES

Just hours before polls opened, Al Gore wrapped up his presidential campaign in Florida, a key state in his razor-close race against Republican George W. Bush.

Bush's White House campaign came to an emotional close last night in Austin,Texas.

Heavy rain's threatening to create further chaos across Britain today as a record number of severe flood warnings remain in place AND

They've been broken, lost, shattered and torn apart but Briton Robert Moss is the first person literally to give his heart away.

[02] US RESULTS

Voters in Dixville Notch voted just after seven this morning, backing Bush over Gore by a margin of 21 to five,

Located in New Hampshire's northern White Mountains, the town is a popular tourist destination and is happy for the publicity of being among the first to vote in presidential elections.

[03] GORE CAMPAIGN

The Reuters/MSNBC national tracking poll released last night showed Gore had taken a two-percentage-point lead over Bush, 48 percent to 46 percent.

While the survey remained well within the margin of error, leaving the race too close to call, the figures bucked a trend in which Bush had led Gore for 11 days in a row. Other polls showed Bush with a narrow lead of up to four points.

Gore arrived in Miami Beach shortly past midnight for an oceanfront rally that drew more than 20,000 screaming supporters, and then headed to a final event in Tampa.

The vice president will fly later today to his home state of Tennessee, where he will cast his ballot and then await the election night returns.

Gore's visit to Florida came during an around-the-clock barnstorming tour, which began before dawn yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, and included stops in St. Louis and Flint, Michigan.

Gore and Bush are engaged in a close race in Florida for the state's 25 electoral votes, one of the biggest prizes on Election Day.

[04] BUSH CAMPAIGN

Bush was welcomed home by staff, family and friends after a final campaign stop in President Bill Clinton's home state of Arkansas, where he predicted he would win the state

Bush's brash final day strategy began with a stop in Tennessee, home to his Democratic rival Al Gore, which he predicted the vice president would lose when Americans go to

in what looks to be the closest presidential election in 40 years.

The Texas governor also may have derived some personal satisfaction from signing off with a stop in Arkansas.

In 1992, Clinton and Gore denied his father, former President George Bush, a second term in the White House.

Driving his point home, Bush chose to spend several of the campaign's waning hours in Wisconsin and Iowa, two other states that voted for Clinton and Gore in 1992 and 1996.

Storming through traditional Democratic territory, Bush denounced Gore as out of touch and out of time.

[05] BRITS FLOODS

Thirteen people have so far lost their lives due to the freak weather conditions.

52 warnings are in operation amid fears more rivers could burst their banks.

And weather forecasters say things are set to get worse -- a further two inches of rain could fall, mainly in the northern part of the country, in the next 24 hours.

Bad weather conditions are also wreaking havoc in Ireland, France, Spain, Italy and Poland.

[06] GENEVA TODAY

The two men discussed issues concerning power distribution in a possible post-solution government, continued in the non-document submitted to the two sides by Mr De Soto.

President Clerides has already called the document, incomplete.

After the meeting, President Clerides confirmed that tomorrow afternoon he is scheduled to meet UN Chief Kofi Anan.

Mr Anan arrives in Geneva tomorrow morning, and is expected to have strenuous daily talks with both President Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

At this time, Alvaro De Soto is meeting Rauf Denktash.

[07] CLINTON CYPRUS

In the report, covering the period from the first of August until the thirtieth of September, President Clinton notes that the American position on Cyprus has been conveyed to Turkish president Ahmet Sezer and the importance of a just and viable solution for all Cypriots has also been pointed out.

Bill Clinton also points out that according to the United Nations, the on-going proximity talks on Cyprus have taken, in his expression, a quality step forward.

[08] DENKTASH THREATS

In an interview to German current affairs magazine Der Spiegel, Rauf Denktash claimed that by its insistence to join the European Union, the Greek-Cypriot side is attempting to push the European Union into a war with Turkey.

Der Spiegel also publishes an interview with German foreign Minister Yioska Fischer, in which he states that there is grave danger from Cyprus entering the European Union, before a solution to the Cyprus problem is achieved.

[09] FATALITY

Thomaida Papadopoulou, 21, from Greece, engaged to a Cypriot, was instantly killed when her car collided head on with a cement mixer.

Preliminary police reports on the cause of the accident say that Papadopoulou lost control of her car and entered the opposite lane of traffic.

[10] ACCIDENT CRITICAL

She was critically injured when hit by a car, driven by Athanasios Athanasiou, 35.

Doctors say that Georgallidou's health has shown no improvement and the next few hours will be critical for her health.

She has been put on a respirator.

[11] HEARTBREAKER

Moss's 61-year-old ticker, which was replaced with a better one in August, will be prominently displayed in a new 50 million pound wing of the Science Museum in London.

Never before has a living person donated his or her own heart to a museum," a spokesman for the museum said.

The heart, three times the size of a normal one due to a bout of rheumatic fever, is diseased and had been fitted with a mechanical valve to keep it going.

Moss, fitter than ever after his heart transplant, hopes his gift will encourage other people to join organ donor programmes.

[12] WEATHER

Winds will be moderate northeasterly to southeasterly, three to four beaufort and the sea will be slightly moderate.

Temperatures rose to 26 degrees centigrade inland.

Tonight, the weather will remain mainly clear.

Winds will be light northwesterly, two to three beaufort and the sea will be slightly moderate.

Temperatures will fall to 13 degrees centigrade inland, 15 on the coast and 9 on the mountains.

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