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The Battalion WORLD & NATION 9 Monday, April 9,1990 Hungarians vote in final round of elections; conservatives lead BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Millions voted Sunday in a final round of national elections to pick Hungary’s first freely chosen government in 43 years, and the main conservative party took a commanding early lead. Its major rival conceded defeat. State television, reporting preliminary results four hours after polling stations closed, showed the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum winning 60 of 171 contested seats and leading in another 64. Their closest rivals, the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats, were far back, holding 20 seats and ahead in 27. Official results were not expected before Tuesday. But the clear conservative advantage forced an early concession from Miklos Haraszti, a leading Free Democrat. “It is clear that the HDF will gain the most seats,” he said. Elections two weeks ago left 261 of the Na tional Assembly’s 394 seats undecided. That bal loting gave no party an outright majority but re legated the former Communists to fourth place. No party was considered strong enough to win a majority in Sunday’s polling and a coalition government was expectea. More than 7.5 million people were eligible to vote. “I It’s clear that people have become tired. It’s time to end the election process.” — Matyas Szueros, Interim president Both front-running parties, the Hungarian Democratic Forum and the Alliance of Free Democrats, have refused to consider forming a government with the former Communists, now running as the Socialist Party. Most polls closed at 6 p.m. after 12 hours of voting. State television began its 24-hour election program two hours later with preliminary esti mates of a more than 40 percent turnout nation wide, indicating that more than 3.25 million peo ple voted. A poll made public shortly after the end of vot ing predicted a clear Democratic Forum victory. The poll of 2,000 people conducted by the Hungarian Public Opinion Survey Institute indi cated that Democratic Forum would hold 39 per cent of the seats in the legislature, with the Free Democrats capturing 29 percent. The Smallholders would end up with 13 per cent of the seats and the Socialists with 9 percent, according to the poll, which was made public on the television election program. No details of how the survey was conducted were revealed. Many Hungarians seemed weary after the sec ond round of balloting in two weeks. “It’s clear that people have become tired,” In terim President Matyas Szueros told reporters before casting his ballot. “It’s time to end the election process.” The voting was generally uneventful, with few irregularities reported. In Debrecen, about 90 miles west of the capital of Budapest, several polling stations did not open on time because supervisory officials were late, state radio reported. One station first opened at 9 a.m., three hours past schedule. The radio said the delay was caused by the chief supervisor who called in to say he would be late because “he was tired.” Voters at a polling station in Budapest shook out umbrellas after walking in from the rain, and many clutched pussy willows symbolic in Hun gary of Easter. Lithuanians expect snags in market economy switch Expert claims U.S. population causes problems PITTSBURGH (AP) — One American does 20 to 100 times more damage to the planet than one person in the Third World, and one rich American causes 1,000 times more destruction, a population expert said Thursday. “The most serious population problem in the world is right here in the United States,” said Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University pro fessor of population studies. “The most common misper ception of the population prob lem is that it’s a problem of poor Indians who don’t know how to use condoms,” he said. “Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.” Ehrlich spoke to about 1,200 students, teachers, garden-club members and corporate exec utives at a conference on solving global environmental problems. Ehrlich railed against highly developed nations like the United States that he claims consume too much of the world’s resources. EDITOR’S NOTE — The material for this report was gathered before the Soviet government expelled Ann Imse and other Western correspon dents from Lithuania on April 1. VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Many Lithuanians say their declaration of independence was like leaping for a lifeboat to escape a sinking ship. “Alone, we know it will be better in five years; with them, we don’t,” banker Gintautas Preidis said of the Lithuanian Parliament’s decision March 1 1 to cut loose from the So viet Union and its economic and eth nic problems. Lithuanians expect initial difficul ties in switching from central plan ning and subsidies to a market econ omy in which prices are set by competition. The republic also may lose access to cheap Soviet resources. “I visited a collective farm where they had 30 people as bookkeepers,” said Joseph Kazickas, a Lithuanian who emigrated to the United States at the end of World War II and be came a businessman. “ A r^lone, we know it will be better in five years; with them, we don’t,” — Gintautas Preidis, banker He is back in Lithuania, arranging for experts to help reform the econ omy and working with Premier Kazi- mieras Prunskiene to set up a system that would entice Western invest ment. The Kremlin, which has used troops to take over Lithuania’s pros ecutor’s office and has waged a war of nerves to keep the republic in its fold, is standing in the way of some reform and could stifle other moves to revamp the republic’s economy. Prunskiene has said Soviet Pre mier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov and his Cab inet refused to transfer most author ity from Moscow to Vilnius. For example, Prunskiene sug gested that the majority of the 200- plus factories now run by ministries in Moscow be turned over to Lithua nian control. Ryzhkov and his min isters are willing to hand over only a few dozen. Lithuanian officials aim for their nation of 3.8 million people, about the size and population of Ireland, to develop a thriving economy based on selling meat, milk and consumer goods to the Soviet Union and ship ping its imports and exports. But Moscow built many of Lithua nia’s factories according to no eco nomic logic, far from raw materials and customers. They manufacture goods so outmoded that only des perate Soviet consumers would buy them. Relations with the Soviet Union are critical for Lithuania, which gets all its oil and gas from Siberia at low rates. Moscow needs Lithuania, whose factories produce parts for Soviet plants. Twenty-nine-year-old political ban lifted by Nepal’s government King announces new multiparty system while opposition leaders claim victory KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Ling Birendra on Sunday announced the establishment of a multiparty system and the lifting of a 29-year-old ban on political parties following the bloodiest day in Nepal’s modern history. The stunning announcement was carried on state-run television and preceeded by several hours of talks between opposition leaders and the Harvard University-educated monarch. “We talked with the king for an hour at the royal palace and the talks were very, very cor dial,” said Kirshna Prasad Bhattrai, a leader of the Nepali Congress Party, which had been banned for the last 29 years. The decision came after talks between the new Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand, a rel ative moderate, and opposition leaders on Satur day and Sunday. Chand was given his job last week after hard-line Prime Minister Marich Man Shrestha resigned. The kingdom’s only experiment with Western- style democracy lasted less than two years and was halted in 1961 when Birendra’s father, King Mahendra, dismissed the Nepali Congress gov ernment, accusing it of corruption and ineffi ciency. Since then, political parties have been banned and the king has ruled in conjunction with a leg islature called the Rashtriya Panchayat, or Na tional Assembly. Violence flared Friday during a general strike called by banned political groups, the Nepali Congress and a coalition of leftist parties, who launched the campaign for multiparty democ racy seven weeks ago. There have been demonstrations for greater democracy in the past, but the support has come mainly from university students and limited cir cles of activists. Thank you, voters ... for making me the leading candidate in the primary. 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