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Albanians flock to polls
for multiparty elections
TIRANA, Albania - Excited Al
banians crowded polling stations
Sunday for historic multiparty elec
tions called after protests and desper
ate refugees helped force an end to 46
years of hard-line Stalinism and iso
lation.
The parliamentary vole, held less
than four months after opposition
parties were legalized, was described
by Western observers as free but tainted
by continued Communist domination
over the media and government.
Supporters of the main opposition
Democratic Party and other newly
formed groups have blamed Commu
nists for dragging the Balkan nation’s
3.2 million people into extreme pov
erty.
“This day is the greatest day in
Albania’s history.... It’s the end of
dictatorship, the end of communism,”
said Gramoz Pashko, one of the
Democrats’ two main leaders.
Albania is the last Eastern Euro
pean nation to hold multiparty elec
tions since the collapse of Commu
nist rule m the region.
Sali Berisha, a cardiologist and the
Democrats’ other leader, predicted
“total victory.”
There were no reports of election
related violence, and turnout was high
among the nation’s 1.9 million eli
gible voters.
By midaftemoon, 73 percent of
eligible voters had cast ballots in
Tirana, and 79 percent in Vlore. The
cities were thought to be strongholds
of the Democratic Party. The polls
closed at 8 p.m. (1 p.m. EST ).
The turnout was reported even
higher in smaller southern towns —
thought to be areas of strong Commu
nist support.
No official results were expected
until Tuesday. In contests where no
candidate gets an outright majority,
runoff elections will be held in a
week.
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Strikers make threats
Miners demand parliament action
MOSCOW - Striking coal min
ers threatened Sunday to flood their
mines unless Russian lawmakers
met their demands, but the parlia
ment remained preoccupied with a
power struggle midway through its
special session.
Speaker after speaker on the
fourth day of the session of Rus
sian Congress of People’s Depu
ties appealed for leaders to resolve
the fate of Russian leader Boris
Yeltsin — or concentrate on press
ing economic problems.
Opponents of Yeltsin, President
Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief rival,
haven’t mustered enough support
for a no-confidence vote. But his
allies do not have the two-thirds
majority needed to create a stronger
presidency, an office Yeltsin seeks
in a popular vote.
Yeltsin’s election as president
would give him a moral edge over
Gorbachev, who has never faced
direct election by the voters.
“We are paying for your help
lessness every day,’’ Anatoly Ma
lykhin, a strike leader from Kuznetsk
in southern Siberia, told the parlia
ment, which met in the Kremlin.
“Why don’t you help us?”
An estimated 300,000 of the
country’s 1.2 million miners have
joined the strike that began as a 24
hour walkout March 1. Their de
mands include the resignation of
Gorbachev, new elections and
doubled paychecks.
Miners now earn an average of
375 rubles (S660) per month, about
40 percent above the national norm.
Rebels: Iraqis pounding capitals
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Kurdish reb
els said Iraqi forces backed by heli
copter gunships, warplanes and artil
lery pounded two provincial capitals
Sunday but had not managed to cap
ture the cities.
Iraq, however, claimed it had chased
the rebels out of the northern cities of
Dohuk and Erbil, and said govern
ment troops were welcomed by cheer
ing residents.
It was impossible to verify cither
side’s claims.
The Kurdish rebellion flared in
northeastern Iraq five weeks ago when
the Persian Gulf war ended with a
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rout of Saddam’s forces by the U.S.
led allied coalition. At the same time,
Shiite Moslems revolted in the south.
Forces loyal to Saddam launched a
major offensive last week against the
Kurdish insurgents, who had captured
nearly all of their historic homeland.
Government troops Thursday re
captured the oil center of Kirkuk, and
on Sunday they appeared in complete
control, Associated Press reporter Wafa
Amr reported from the city.
She said burned corpses, cars and
trucks still littered the streets, and
that many buildings were ravaged by
shellfire and bullet holes.
Iraqi authorities accused the reb
els of going on a rampage of murder,
looting and destruction while they
held the city.
The insurgents, however, accused
Saddam’s troops of atrocities against
civilians and appealed to the allies for
help.
But the United States has said it
will not intervene in the civil war,
although it has shot down Iraqi mili
tary planes that have taken to the
skies in a violation of the cease-fire
terms. U.S. forces have not shot down
helicopter gunships, however.
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