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THE BATTALION
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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-
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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-
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