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LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Al berto Fujimori led in early results Sun day in Peru’s presidential election, but appeared headed for a runoff vote in his attempt to win an unprecedented third five-year term. Unofficial results from 99 percent of precincts showed Fujimori pulling ahead of Alejandro Toledo, with 48 per cent of the vote to his opponent’s 41.6 percent, the independent polling firm Apoyo said. Hours earlier, an exit poll by the same firm gave Toledo 45.2 percent to Fujimori’s 43.6 percent. The poll did not take into account isolated rural areas inaccessible by road, where support for Fujimori was expect ed to be strong. Those rural areas were likely to provide the margin of victory in the closely contested race. But if the numbers hold up a runoff will be necessary, since a candidate needs to obtain more than 50 percent of valid votes to win outright. Fujimori. 61. popular for having crushed leftist insurgencies and ending economic chaos, was facing the most serious challenge of his career from 54-year-old Toledo, a U.S.-trained economist. Toledo, wearing a red bandanna around his head, greeted tens of thou sands of supporters outside a downtown hotel Sunday night. As the crowd chanted “the dictator ship has fallen,” and “Toledo presi dent,” he cautioned that it was prema ture to claim victory. But he said, “there is reason to celebrate the dawn of a new democracy in Peru.” Apoyo director Alfredo Torres said the exit poll figures were based on in terviews with 35,000 voters in 70 provinces. The margin of error was 5 percentage points. Apoyo’s exit polls have proved highly accurate in past elections. But Torres said last week they would not in clude samples from the remote rural ar eas where 10 to 15 percent of the vot ers live. Toledo, w ho grew' up in poverty, has capitalized on the country’s deep two- year recession and high unemployment to cut into Fujimori’s support among the poor. “People don’t know much about him, but we know who we’re not sup porting. 1 le is sure to be better than Fu jimori,” Eduardo Vasquez, 24, one of Peru’s many unemployed, said after voting at a school set amid shack-cov- Game time If the current pr c Operations C ttee on Early Rej it Texas A&M st egister early. ith the new \ as a student w( the privilege to :e, v said Leana _|mic affairs in ciation (SGA) ar BRIAN SMITH'11#. B During their development program Sunday afternoon, Catherine Harris, a freshman psychology majot enjoys a game with her fellow counselors. Fish camp counselors learn how to facilitate games so the coming freshmen can enjoy themselves and learn to trust and communicate with their counselors. ervice BY BRO( The Texas A&M em Services, Lands U.S. prepares to move 4,00 airmen from Saudi Arabia rod Service Dep ford to a pay incre Medical transcr tve an average r istodial workers •e related a The ered desert hills on Lima’s southern out skirts. But Fujimori still enjoys widespread support and had a lead of 6 to 7 per centage points in several public opinion surveys going into the election. “He has done so much that appeared impossible,” said Antero Pasos, a 72- year-old retired auto mechanic who vot ed at the same school as Vasquez. “No other governments have accomplished what he did. Now wc have roads, elec tricity, health care.” RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) United States, which has come under criticism for maintaining mili tary forces in Saudi Arabia nine years after the Gulf War, is moving some of its 4,000 airmen out of the desert king dom, a U.S. mili tary official said Sunday. It was not immediately clear if the change was linked to a growing unease in the Saudi government about hosting U.S. troops. Besides Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states such as Kuwait have increasingly been criticized by their own people and by other Muslim nations for hosting U.S. mil itary bases. U.S. Defense Secretary William Co hen, who is on a regional tour, discussed the logistics of the move with American commanders at the Prince Sultan Air Base in the Saudi desert, said the official, who is based in Saudi Arabia and spoke on con dition of anonymity. The official did not say how many air men will be moved or when. Both coun tries made the decision, the official said, adding that the details had yet to be dis cussed. Saudi officials were not immedi ately available for comment. Besides the 4,000 airmen, there are an other 1.000 U.S. troops based in Saudi Arabia. In 1996, then U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry said the United States in tended to move between 3,000 and 4.000 troops stationed in Saudi Arabia for mon itoring the “no-fly zone” over Iraq. But it was never publicly announced that such a movement actually took place. The latest trwps move, however, is not likely to whittle the strong military com merce between the United States and the region, which owns mostly U.S.-made weapons. In 1998, Saudi Arabia was the number one buyer of U.S. arms in the re gion, with $2.7 billion in new sales. Cohen was expected to go to the Red Sea port city of Jiddah later Sunday to meet with his Saudi counterpart. Prince Sultan. The two will discuss a $504 mil lion deal for the sale of more than 12 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia to replace older ones, the official said. The presence of troops and bases is critical for the United States in the oil-rich Gulf region, which also plays host to large U.S. investments. The presence also is in response to a perceived military threat to the region from Iraq and Iran. During a stop in Qatar earlier in the week, Cohen discussed the possibility of using a base there for an air expeditionary unit that could help defend the area in a military crisis. I le implied that some U.S. forces could be transferred there from else- jjjse of 67 cents pi where in the region. Rers w ill recei\ “We have had discussionsi sniper hour, ace about the possibilit) of usinga [uman Resource \ times oferisis for an aircxpcditiorc- Despite this p of unit so that we could in facthav i&M’s custodians, to help defend the area in timesn! ice workers will crisis. But we have not talkedyorkers doing the : expansions in the region,”Cohen fty ofTexas-Austi lens ol thousands of U.S. troofifiihroundskeeper pail of a multinational force that u cee pj n „ u n j ve ered in Saudi Arabia forthe 1991G. against Iraq. Some U.S. troops were left befel ter the war /(> keep the prcsswri*#: since 1996 Saudi aut/ioritiitotA pennission to allow their i used for attacks on Iraq. Riyadh’s discomfort about itsci with Washington started afteraJi#! bomb attack on a U.S. military ba eastern Saudi Arabia killed 19/1 servicemen. Anti-American Mb tremists arc believed to have beetiK the attack. During his meeting with Sul Saudi defense minister, Cohenal*! expected to talk about cooperationfl tense system that would ensurep ness against mass destruction wea tacks. The proposed defense initiative*] include an early warning systemtt| Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and othernl sophisticated U.S. intelligences that can spot a missile launch insta til ical tour... 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