Mahmoud Maharbe (R), 60, a Palestinian elder who knows neither how to read nor write, casts his vote in a practice session January 17 in part of a lesson on voting in a democracy given by Palestinians under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The man at left was able to help Mahmoud in filling out his votes both for the president (ballot box at right) and for the Palestinian council. Palestinian go to the polls for the first time on January 20