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Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to apologize yesterday for his use of a racial slur to condemn the North Vietnamese prison guards who tortured and held him captive during the war. "I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live." McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, was questioned about the language because of a story last month in the Nation magazine reporting his continued use of the slur. Since then, reports of...

Los Angeles -- GOP presidential candidate John McCain's meteoric rise to front-runner status has made him target of new Internet attacks from his political opponents, but he said Thursday that "I'm not going to waste my time" responding to those bent on reviving some of his past controversies in an attempt to stop his momentum. McCain, in an interview with The Chronicle on Thursday, reacted to the latest attack - a Drudge Report post Thursday of a Chronicle column published in 2000. The column, by writer C.W. Nevius, quoted the Arizona senator, who was tortured during five years in solitary...

Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to apologize yesterday for his use of a racial slur to condemn the North Vietnamese prison guards who tortured and held him captive during the war. ``I hate the gooks,'' McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. ``I will hate them as long as I live.'' McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, was questioned about the language because of a story last month in the Nation magazine reporting his continued use of the slur. Since then, reports of...