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Student Government Association Student Travel 1-800-777-0112 271 The world's largest student & youth travel organization 5TA TRAVEL gfm ■■■■■■■Ml Page 4 The Battalion — J Voters to cleanse Italian political scel^ YOUR FUTURE IS WAITING. The Air Force offers training that can prepare you for the future — in your choice of more than 150 different technical fields. Get the advanced training you need starting today — along with: • good pay • 30 days vacation with pay per year • complete medical & dental care • the chance to travel • opportunities to advance Explore your future in today’s Air Force. Call AIR FORCE TOLL FREE 1-800-423-USAF ===== National elections predicted to remove government corruption The Associated Press giving Italy a new first day of national ROME — Voters began political face on Sunday, the elections that promise to turn the government’s sights to the right or the left. With the centrist parties that led the country since 1948 discredited by a corruption scandal, the parliamentary elections pitted a conserva tive alliance formed by one of Italy’s richest men against a leftist coalition dominated by former Communists. “Today we vote, Italy changes,” the Corriere della Sera newspaper trumpeted Sunday as the nation began two days of voting. Pollsters and media are barred from disclos ing exit poll results until voting ends Monday evening. The penalty is up to five years in prison. About 3 2 percent of eligible voters turned out on Sunday. Both the centrist and pro-Catholic Christian Democrats and Socialist parties, which have led the country for four decades, fell from grace in a kickback scandal that has tainted many of the nation’s political and business elite. Former Socialist leader and ex-Premier Betti- no Craxi is heavily implicated in the scandal, and more than a quarter of parliament is being investigated for possible wrongdoing. That leaves the conservative Freedom Al liance — led by media magnate Silvio Berlus coni’s upstart Forza Italia ("Go Italy”) party — and Achille Occhetto’s Democrat Party of the Left, the former Communists. Joining the former Communists in a cam paign coalition were the anti-Mafia Network, Greens and hard-line Communists who, unlike Occhetto’s party, oppose Italy’s participation in NATO. Under new campaign laws, no opinion polls have been published for two weeks, but the last ones gave a slight edge to Forza Italia and its partners. Those partners include the 1 fascist Italian Social Movement. nor eirs of ill NowqJJ The A* rty of Alf iddaugb ament, servativti :ated an: his fortune i National Alliance, it is the Mussolini, the dictator’s g ning for a second term in p; Also allied with the cc Northern League, which ad ruption, anti-bureaucracy 1 kickback scandals broke. Berlusconi, who made tate, supermarkets, media and entertitj jumped into politics only two months;; Elis holdings include Italy’s threebk- vate television networks, a Milan dailpj per, film production compani moviehouses, and top-ranked soccuer | Milan. Opponents claim Berlusconi would 1/ business interests in policy decisionsi came premier. Berlusconi said he woul from decisions posing a conflict ofinteiej If no single coalition gets more the ballots, they will be forced to court:] trist parties. DANCE CLASSES 7^“ Register Basement MSC University PLUS Craft Center 845'1631 n r DANCE A ADVANCED COUNTRY & WESTERN DANCE Wed. April 6. 13. 20, 27, May 4 6-7:15pm $20/student $25/nonstudent JITTERBUG Wed. April 13, 20, 27, May 4 7:30-8:45 pm $20/student $25/nonstudent v. % PLUS Former Soviet citizens to decide between multiple parties, candidates for direction The Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine •— Angered by an economy that’s going nowhere fast, Ukrainians voted in large numbers Sunday to replace the Communist-dominated parlia ment that has blocked reforms and opposes nuclear disarma ment. Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine ignored a presidential order by holding referendums on closer ties with Russia. The brisk turnout for parlia mentary elections, Ukraine’s first since tne collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, defied predic tions of voter apathy. Preliminary turnout on a crisp, sunny day topped 6 7 percent by evening, well above the 50 percent needed for the election to oe valid. “The people of Ukraine un derstand very well these are not ordinary elections,” said Viktor Pohorylo, deputy chairman of the Election Commission. "This is a vote for future social peace.” First results were not expected until at least Monday. The election took place amid growing economic despair in Ukraine. After voting in central Kiev, President Leonid Kravchuk said he hoped for a pro-reform parliament but warned he would postpone presidential elections if the new parliament deepened po litical chaos. The election could fuel ten sions between the pro-Russian east and the nationalist west. “The mood is mixed. Some don’t know who to vote for and the rest are more radical. I don’t think Communists will get votes in western Ukraine,” said Yuri Hresko, who was helping get out the vote in Lvov, near the Polish border. On the other side of Ukraine, in the Donbass mining region near Russia, elections officials said support for Communist and socialist candidates was strong. The current parliament is dominated by former Commu nists opposed to economic re form and to giving up the nuclear arsenal Ukraine inherited from the Soviet Union. The govern ment has been deadlocked, while hyperinflation eats away at living standards. Voters seemed hopeful a new parliament might improve their lives, but many were confused by the vast number of candidates and platforms. "There must be a little hope, otherwise why would we have dragged ourselves here?” said Lida Mikhaylenko, a seamstress whose last paycheck amounted to about SIS. Some ballots listed more than two dozen names. Voters were re quired to cross off the candidates tney didn’t want. Candidates who -V , „ collect enough votes in the first round will face each other in runoffs April 1 0. “It’s very hard to pick. Before there was just one candidate. 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