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Yeltsin, run ning to represent Moscow in the new 2,250-seat Con gress of People’s Deputies, claimed many Soviets are worried about vote fraud and said the election was not completely democratic. Polling stations in Moscow, festooned with red ban ners and Soviet Hags, opened at 7 a.m. Eleven time zones to the east, in the Kamchatka and Chukotka re gions of Siberia, polls closed as Muscovites were still vot ing. The millions of voters elected 1,500 deputies to the congress, which later will choose the country’s president and elect about 400 of its members to a new full-time legislature, the Supreme Soviet. The Communist Party, labor unions and other offi cially sanctioned organizations already have directly elected 750 members of the congress, which will meet once a year. Hundreds of races were contested for the first time in more than seven decades. The election marked a rev olutionary change in Soviet politics, where the party has allowed only one approved candidate to run for each seat since the days of Vladimir I. Lenin. The official Tass news agency reported brisk to heavy voter turnout nationwide. At one precinct in Moscow’s Krasnopresnenskaya district, 84 percent of those eligible cast ballots, according to a Soviet tele vision report. Final results may not be known for several days. An informal sample of voters in Moscow showed 80 percent of more than 2,000 people questioned as they left polling places said they voted for Yeltsin, but no sci entific exit polls were taken by the official media. Yeltsin campaigned against the privileges afforded high Soviet officials and called for speeding the paced reform to improve living standards for all. Gorbachev is already assured of a seat in the nek congress, and the elections are unlikely to produce am major upheaval in the present power structure, whichb dominated by the Communist Party. The last elections in which- most Russians had a choice occurred weeks after the November 1917 revo lution that swept Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power. In June 1987, two or more candidates competed in! percent of the races for municipal offices in whai amounted to a test for greater democratization. But Sunday marked the first such balloting on a na tionwide scale. In 74 percent of the districts, therewere two or more competing candidates, the Central Election Commission said. However, according to the weekly Moscow News,82 percent of those running in Sunday’s races are Commu nist Party members, guaranteeing the country’s ruling political party will dominate whatever assembly emerges from the voting. Gorbachev, who with his wife Raisa voted at Mos cow’s Institute of Chemical Physics, told reporters the occasionally boisterous campaign caused by the multi candidate election was just what the Kremlin leadership wanted. “The electoral law that we passed has justified our hopes,” Gorbachev said, as Mrs. Gorbachev, holdinga blue umbrella, stood beside him under a light rain. "It has advanced the political thought and social activity of the people, and this is what we wanted to achieve.” T he president said his policies of pressing for more democracy and openness in Soviet society, while not permitting any legal opposition to the Communist Party, are “the key to opening the potential ofourso cialist society, with the purpose of taking into account the various interests of people.” National Briefs Laos has first election under communist rule Afghan city under seige by guerrillas KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Moslem guerrillas bombarded Jala labad with rockets and artillery shells Sunday, and government forces re taliated with heavy air and ground attacks, the Foreign Ministry said. A spokesman for the Communist government said 248 guerrillas, 12 civilians and 3 soldiers were killed in the past 24 hours around Jalalabad. He said 55 others were wounded and 12 houses were destroyed. The official Radio Kabul, mon itored in Islamabad, Pakistan, said “after a shameful defeat” U.S.- backed rebels fled their positions around the city. But the guerrilla- controlled Afghan News Agency, also monitored in Islamabad, said in surgents were successfully attacking posts flanking the embattled city to the north and south. Rebels re ported no death toll after Sunday fighting. There was no independent confir mation of either report. The government said the rebels killed at least 50 people in attacks on four civilian buses elsewhere in the country this weekend. The last Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan Feb. 15, ending a nine-year intervention. Soon after, the Moslem guerrillas established an Afghan government-in-exile in Paki stan and focused the fighting on Ja lalabad, 75 miles east of the capital. The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Nabi Amani, told re porters the guerrillas pounded civil ian and military areas of Jalalabad with 12,000 rockets and shells be tween Saturday and late Sunday. Jalalabad had a population of about 200,000 a decade ago. With many people fleeing to neighboring Pakistan or to other parts of Afghan istan, the population now is thought to be less than 100,000. VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Laotians voted Sunday in the First national election since commu nists seized power 13 years ago. Officials called the balloting a step toward “socialist democracy” but said it would bring no policy changes. Citizens of this impoverished Southeast Asian nation chose members of the Supreme Peo ple’s Council, the highest state body. Officials said 121 candi dates, about two-thirds of them Communist Party members, were running for the 79 seats. “After the elections, there will be no political changes,” acting President Phoumi Vongvichit told reporters at a polling station, dismissing foreign reports of ma jor leadership changes. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jack Fisher broke a record Saturday as the person to live longest on an electric blood pump to help his ailing heart. More than anything, though, the 46-year-old bond salesman hopes for a transplant. “It’s not a record I want to break,” he said, grinning. But he said he didn’t mind be ing a medical pioneer. He talked while relaxing in his hospital room with his wife, Edie, 39, and four of their five daughters. The girls arrived Thursday from the family’s home in Rumson, N J., to spend the Easter weekend with their father. Surgeons at Presbyterian-Uni- versity Hospital of Pittsburgh im- Dlanted a Novacor left-yentricu- ar assist device into a dying Fisher in an operation that ended Dec. 9. Saturday was his 107th “Policy and direction remain unchanged,” said Phoumi, who turns 80 next month. At another polling booth, 68- year-old Premier Kaysone Phom- vihane boasted, “The people won’t let me quit. I am still the prime minister.” Hundreds of people were lined up at polling stations at schools, temples and government offices in the capital by the time polls opened Sunday. Many voters appeared con fused. Some turned in unmarked ballots, and one 70-year-old grandmother asked a foreign re porter to mark hers. Of ficials said voting was not compulsory, but some citizens said they voted be cause they were not convinced there would he no penalty. a transplant. He had been diagnosed three- and-a-half years earlier with car diomyopathy, a disease of un known origin that damages heart muscle. The one-and-a-hall-pound, polyurethane pump was im planted behind the muscle of the front abdominal wall as a tempo rary means of helping the left ventricle, which does 85 percent of the heart’s work. Unlike the Jarvik and other to tal artificial hearts, the Novacor and other assist devices do not re quire removing the patient’s own diseased heart. They are in tended to keep people alive while awaiting transplants, although eventually a long-term device may be developed. The Novacor is the only one of the devices to be driven by electricity. Man breaks record for living on heart pump day with the device while awaiting We invite you to join 80 former students as they return to campus this summer for a week of classes and campus life STUDENT HOST Applications for AGGIEHOSTEL ’89 are now available in the FIELD OFFICE of the Association of Former Students DEADLINE MARCH 31