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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 digest Index local editorials a14 focus a15 letters to the editor a15 business stocks b9 family notices in Mem Drums c10 classified c12 Jumble c14 diversions Ann Landers c9 comics c8 sports record movies d10 prime time to d12 weather d12 Winn Pix Nii dec Ibdih 2000 deaths Betty Alice Edna of widow of Joseph Edith Elsie widow of Charles Donald of the Robert husband of Robin Gra William Eric of widow of Donald of Portage la widow of Victor Peter husband of Susan husband of Marian math husband of Mary Georgina Georgie widow of Jim Herbert husband of Aileen widower of Helen August husband of Cecile Mary widow of Vince Vernon husband of Lorraine Robert John husband of Dorothy widow of Stan classified death notices c10 Iii lotteries pick 3 winning number yesterday was lotto winning numbers yesterday were and Bonus number was the plus winning number yesterday for the main prize of was Western winning numbers yesterday 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restaurant fire destroyed Haws family restaurant in Crystal City Early yesterday the owners were sleeping upstairs when alerted by their fire alarm at about Crystal City ramp said in a news fire Crews battled the Blaze throughout the Early morning gaining control by about 7 the Blaze caused More than nobody was Hurt and the cause of the fire is being investigated by ramp and the fire commissioners the owners lost All their posses ramp and anyone wishing to help the family can Call the Crystal City chamber of Commerce at 204 Drivers table petition the Union representing striking bus Drivers with the River East school division tabled a petition at a Board meeting last the organized by the Canadian Union of Public Calls upon the school boar to end plans to contract out bus which would Likely end the said cupe staff representative Mark last nights Board meeting took place at Kildonan East the River East strike began bus Drivers with Transcona Springfield have been on strike since contracting out school bus service is also the main Issue in that president Bush continued from Page a2 any exultation in the Bush Camp was muted in recognition of the extraordinary circumstances in which he pre having lost the popular vote and won the White House in the end thanks Only to a decision from a supreme court that was As fractured As the problems of legitimacy and popular acceptance the official results of the 7 elec Tion gave Bush a four vote majority in the electoral College 271 to Gore won the popular vote to a margin of just Over Gore is the fourth presidential candidate in history to lose an election while polling More popular votes than the his advisers said Gore abandoned the presidential quest but not the fervent belief that he won More votes in Florida than his Republican but the democratic Vic president avoided any Rancour in his emphasizing instead the need to move Forward and bring the country together behind Bush after the closest elec Tion in Over a what remains of partisan Rancour must be put and god bless his Gores Choice of words signalled some of the bitter reluctance to concede defeat that had propelled his 36day Legal Battle for Florida ballot he congratulated Bush on becoming pres rather than on being elected the next chief Bush said he had received a gracious Call from Gore shortly before the vice president delivered his own nationally televised and he asked Ameri cans to Pray for the Vic president and the entire i have Faith with gods we As a nation will move Forward As one Bush i was not elected to serve one party but to serve one the president elect will need All the help divine and democratic he can with a majority of Only five in the House of representatives and the republicans Only advantage in the 5050 balanced Senate being future vice pres ident Richard Cheney tie breaking Bush would have faced a daunting task As president even without the protracted struggle for the White Bush and then Gore captured the advantage during a Tough but an unusual civility for american presidential elections was the facade of Bonhomie cracked on election night 7 when Florida which will become the Arch typical Bell wether state was placed erroneously first in the Gore column and then called for Gore called Bush to concede Early on Only to retract his Concession an hour later when the difference Between them dwindled to a few Hundred votes out of almost six million tempers and Gore told a dumbfounded Bush not to get snippy about it when the Texas governor lost his Gore called Bush again to concede the i promised him that i Call him Back this Gore during a month of wrangling Over the an unflattering spotlight was thrown on both men and on the shockingly inconsistent voting procedures in the country that promotes itself As the worlds Beacon of As the supreme court deliberated its verdict through the better part of two supporters of both candidates lamented that the presidency had come to this and predicted that whoever Avon would be an unusually weak president who might Only serve one i promised him that i Call him Back this Gore told supporters of his Concession Call to Bush last who campaigned from Start to finish of his 18month push for the White House As a uniter not a will put his election slogan to a Stern Gores defeat was sealed in the supreme court As fractured As the coun try he left Little doubt that his set Back at the hands of five Republican appointed justices of the High court would sting for now the supreme court has so let there be no Gore while i strongly disagree with the courts i accept his Concession speech might be a Kenneth press sober finale to a lifelong career in poli like he is the scion of a political family who had been groomed for the White House from Gore had come excruciatingly after an awkward Campaign that failed to capitalize either on his vast political experience As a Congress senator and Vic president or on the Prosperity enveloping the his prospects of receiving 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