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That could return the Communist maverick to the membership he lost in February 1988 for advo cating speedier change. Leaders of popular movements in the Ukraine and Byelorussia, an outspoken television com mentator in Leningrad and a defiant editor in Moscow also appeared to have won in Sunday’s local and republic elections. “We’re so happy! Such success!” said Irina Rozhenko of the Ukrainian pro-democracy movement Narodny Rukh. Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the vast Russian republic account for 80 percent of the Soviet Union and more than two-thirds of its 290 mil lion people. Most of the 1,800 contests for seats in the legis latures of the three republics remained unde cided, with no candidate getting the required ma jority. State TV said fewer than 15 percent were resolved in the Russian republic. Activists said strong showings in this round nearly guaranteed victories in runoff elections for candidates who want to step up the pace of reforms begun by President Mikhail S. Gorba chev. The runoffs are expected in two weeks. Defeat of old guard local Communist leaders probably would help Gorbachev’s liberalization. He has railed against functionaries who hamper reform, and people hoping to exercise new eco nomic freedoms have told of crippling obstacles erected by local party officials. Ukraine party chief Vladimir A. Ivashko, con sidered a moderate protege of Gorbachev, qual ified for a runoff against an opponent backed by the Narodny Rukh pro-democracy group. Vitaly I. Vorotnikov, president of the Russian republic, defeated a lone opponent in the city of Krasno dar, winning 71.3 percent of the votes cast. Preliminary figures showed Yeltsin, who It said he will challenge Vorotnikov for therepufe presidency, got 72 percent of the vote inhisi trict of Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. Hei feated 1 1 other candidates, said Anatoly Ik seyev of the Russian Federation Electu Commission. Narodny Rukh members said the movemen; leader, poet Ivan Drach, was elected in theft round along with several other prominentacti ists. Zyanon Paznyak, leader of the Byelorussii People’s Front, got 59 percent of the vote ink Minsk district, said spokesman Victor Ivashk vich. He said activist candidates appeared tohn carried cities but party “apparatchiks,’’indudii Byelorussian party chief Yefrem Sokolov, w rural districts. In Leningrad, Bella Kurkova, controvert commentator of the television program “Fifil Wheel,” appeared to be the only first-round wit ner, said IMA Press, an official youth ne*! agency. Jurors chosen for trial of Poindexter WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-one people, including a lawyer who worked for the Bush presidential campaign, were cho sen prospective jurors Monday as the selection process began for the Iran-Contra trial of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. Poindexter is charged with five felony counts — one of conspir acy, two of obstructing Congress and two of making false statements to congressional com mittees — in connection with ac cusations that he covered up Oli ver North’s secret Contra resupply network and lied about a 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. He is the highest-ranking Rea gan administration official to go on trial in the Iran-Contra affair. U.S. District Judge Harold Greene disqualified one woman who expressed uncertainty when asked whether she could be fair and impartial. The judge also dis qualified an equipment operator who said that “when the whole thing was going down” following public disclosure of the Iran-Con tra affair “all you heard was North and Poindexter.” Seven teen of the first 21 in the pool were women. Two hundred six people have filled out questionnaires to be possible jurors for the trial, and 76 of them have said they had heard, watched or read portions of congressional testimony Poin dexter gave in 1987 under a grant of immunity from prosecu tion based on what he said. The judge approved for the jury pool a real estate lawyer who worked in President Bush’s cam paign. Bush was President Rea gan’s vice president at the time. The woman also said one of Poindexter’s defense lawyers, Jo seph Small, had babysat for her when she was a child. Iran-Contra prosecutor Dan Webb questioned whether she should be in the jury pool since she knew one of the defense law yers. ‘Complete chaos’ South African troops advance to quell mass looting, arson JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) —The South African government sent troops into the black home land of Ciskei on Monday to quell widespread looting and arson following a military coup that ousted the ter ritory’s authoritarian president. Brig. Gen. Oupa Cqozo of the Ciskei army, who seized power Sunday, told cheering supporters the Af rican National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups would be allowed to operate freely under his new government. South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha said his government intervened at the request of Cqozo, who led the bloodless coup in the nominally independent homeland on the Indian Ocean coast. More than 50 factories, many owned by Israelis and Taiwanese, were set afire in a second day of rioting and looting in several parts of Ciskei, witnesses said. Two hotels and dozens of vehicles also were burned, they said. There were no deaths reported in Sunday’s coup, but doctors at Cecilia Makilwane Hospital said three people were fatally stabbed and dozens more injured in the •subsequent rioting. “All the shops and factories were burning,” said an employee at a local hotel. “Everybody was looting and there was complete chaos.” Rioters, many of them drunk, broke into shops,ft moved goods, and then set buildings ablaze witn fin bombs, the witnesses said. Looters used wheelbarro- to haul away stoves, refrigerators and other items,6ll cials said. Witnesses said the looting spread Monday evening a the black and mixed-race townships outside theSouiii African port city of East London, about 40 miles fra Ciskei’s capital of Bisho. Botha said Monday his government would noF'en tertain any request” to intervene in the homeland,bit the troops were sent in shortly afterward when the loot ing began again. Cqozo received a rousing cheer Monday when ht told thousands of people at a stadium in Bisho that tht African National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups would be free to engage in political activity in Ciskei. The ANC is the main black group fighting South Af rica’s white-run government. South African Presidem F.W. de Klerk legalized the ANC last month, but some homeland leaders still don’t allow the group to operaft in the territories they control. Kohl: No border guarantee BONN, West Germany (AP) — Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Monday defended his demand that a guax- antee of Poland’s border be linked to Warsaw’s renunciation of war repa rations, saying Poland has been de manding compensation for\ forced laborers used in the T hird Reich. In East Berlin, meanwhile, Com munists and opposition parties agreed to submit a brdad social char ter to lawmakers in both Germanys designed to protect East Germans against social hardships once the countries merge under a capitalist system. The chaxter, adopted at weekly negotiations between the Commu nists and 15 opposition groups, de mands that the right to work and the right to accommodation be en shrined in the constitution of a united Germany. It also calls for guai antees of dem ocratic and humane working condi tions, education and health sex vices for all, protection of pensions, equal ity of the sexes, and social integra tion for the disabled. Kohl’s refusal to give Poland guarantees about its border has led to a widening split with Foreign Min ister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and “T I his (a unified Germany) is not only concerns Poland’s trust, but that of all Europeans.” — Hans-Dietrich Genscher, W. German foreign minister the two met privately Monday to dis cuss the issue. Genscher has been saying that West Germany must make clear to its neighbox s that a unified Germany would not be a threat. “This not only concerns Poland’!I trust, but that of all Europeans,"li told the ZDF television network. Kohl has said he has no designsoil land ceded to Poland after the Thir Reich’s defeat — about a thirdol[ modern-day Poland. Kohl faces West German election in December and is apparently con cerned about losing the conservadif vote. Polish Priixie Minister Tadeusi Mazowiecki has called on both Go manys to begin negotiations oni treaty that would recognize the Odei and Neisse rivers, which currentl) form the border, as the permanent | boundary between Poland andGer many. On Friday, Kohl said such a treat' would have to be tied to Poland’s 1953 renunciation of war repa rations and of its pledge last year io protect the ethnic rights of its Ger man minority. National, international organizations line up to cash in on 4 peace dividend’ WASHINGTON (AP) — In the past week or so, claims against the peace dividend have been posted by the nation’s governors, advocates of U.S. aid to the emerging democracies of eastern Europe and Central America, and 79 U.S. sen ators. They’ll have to get into line with all the others looking to cash in on defense spending cuts to fi nance other aims — or to cut taxes. “One of my colleagues ... sent me a note saying he felt that half of the peace dividend should be applied to education,” said Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley. “And half of it to health. And half of it to deficit reduction. And half of it to tax reduction. And half of it to the infrastructure. “ And half of it to creating a new mathematics to explain how six halves equal one whole.” It’s a hartnless political pastime right now, be cause there isn’t any peace dividend to pay for other things or cut the deficit this year. “The peace dividend is peace,” says Vice Presi dent Dan Quayle. But nobody doubts that the defense budget is going to be cut, freeing resources to go else- where, unless there is an incredible reversal of the already incredible change that has swept eastward to Moscow, easing if not ending the Cold War. The Pentagon warns that reversal could hap pen, but CIA Director William H. Webster told Congress last week that it is unlikely, even- if hardliners were to take over in Moscow. The administration isn’t forecasting a budget bonus now or soon, resisting pressure in Con gress to carve one out of defense spending. There axe certain to be cuts in the administra- “I I do not believe it is too dramatic to say that the No. 1 issue of the 1990s, if things continue to move in the current direction in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, will be what to do with the peace dividend.” — Phil Gramm, U.S. Senator tion’s $296 billion defense budget, an increase in dollars although not enough to match inflation. But Democrat Foley said that in the early phases, it will be difficult to wring major savings out of defense cuts that close bases, recall troops from abroad or cancel weapons contracts. “The immediate impact is sometimes to in crease costs in the short term,” he said. “But there’s no question ... we’xe talking about ver) significant savings to be realized.” Foley said he thinks the eventual savings should be split, half to reduce the federal deficit, half to “the social defi cit” of financially strapped domestic pr ograms. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tex., raised the issue in the Senate last week with an amendment suggest ing that any peace dividend be used to cut taxes He said the only discussion had been about ways to spend the money, when the government shouldn’t spend it at all but should give it back to taxpayers. “I do not believe it is too dramatic to say that the No. 1 issue of the 1990s, if things continue to move in the current direction in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, will be what to do withtne peace dividend,” Gramm said. Before the Senate got to its hypothetical legis lation, the National Governox s Conference had adopted a resolution urging President Bush “to dedicate the peace dividend in a balanced man ner between tne federal budget deficit, education and other productivity investments.” There were no numbers attached. 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