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Page 10 The Battalion Monday, March 27,1989
Soviets choose candidates
in election for parliament
MOSCOW (AP) — For the First time in more than 70
years, Soviets had a choice of candidates when they
voted Sunday for a new parliament in an election Mik
hail S. Gorbachev hailed as a triumph for his vision of
democracy.
However, maverick candidate Boris N. 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
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