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Politburo leaders fail to win
unanimous support in election
MOSCOW (AP) - President
Mikhail Gorbachev and other
members of the ruling Politburo
failed to win unanimous support as
Communist Party deputies in a new
Soviet legislature, Pravda reported
yesterday.
t The results provide unusual in-
sight into divisions in the policy-
making Central Committee, the
Communist Party newspaper said of
641 Central Committee members
and alternates who voted Thursday.
Twelve were opposed to Gorbachev.
Yegor Ligachev, reputedly a con-
servative force on the Politburo, got
the most "no" votes of any Pol-
itburo member, 78, according to
Pravda.
The Communist Party and some
other public organizations are en-
titled to directly choose 750 of the
2,250 members of the new Congress
of People's Deputies.
The other 1,500, representing
territorial districts, will be chosen
March 26 in nationwide elections.
Some Soviets have objected to
the provision of the reforms champ-
ioned by Gorbachev.
They give the party direct rep-
resentation in the new assembly,
which will chose legislators and e-
lect the Soviet president.
The vote by Central Committee
members and alternates showed there
is considerable opposition not only
to Ligachev, but also to Politburo
members closely linked to Gor-
bachev.
Alexander Yakovlev, said to be
Gorbachev's closest adviser, got 59
"no" votes, while the candidacy of
Moscow party boss Lev Zaikov was
rejected by 25 of those voting.
Gorbachev installed Zaikov as party
boss following the November 1987
sacking of Boris Yeltsin.
Twenty-two people also voted
against Vadim Medvedeb, a Gor-
bachev ally named to the Politburo
in September 1988 to assume the
ideology portfolio stripped from
Ligachev.
Along with Gorbachev, the
Politburo members who received the
widest support were Nikolai Sly-
unkov, chief of the party's com-
mission on social and economic
policy.
U.S. helicopter carrying 37 Marines
crashes in South Korean mountains
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Despite heavy fighting between the army and rebels, voting was heavy
yesterday in San Salvador. Turnout was lighter in the rural areas.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A U.S. Marine
helicopter carrying 37 Marines crashed in an isolated
mountain region on South Korea's southeast coast
early today and 22 were killed, U.S. authorities said.
Fifteen Marines were injured, some critically, U.S.
authorities said. The most critical were evacuated to an
amphibious assault ship off the Korean coast, the USS
Belleau Wood, and the rest were flown to Seoul,
authorities said.
The Marines were participating in the annual joint
0.S.-South Korea military "Team Spirit" maneuvers
which includes 60,000 U.S. troops.
A U.S. military statement said the helicopter was
assigned to the 1st Marine Air Wing, Futenma Marine
Cops Air Station, in Okinawa, Japan. It carried a crew
of four and 30 military passengers.
Names of the injured and dead were withheld pend-
ing notification of next of kin.
The U.S. military said the crash occurred shortly
before 7 a.m. in a rugged, mountainous area south of
Ponang, an industrial port on the southeast coast of
South Korea.
'Salvador
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Christian Democratic Party
and Alfredo Christiani the National-
ist Republican Alliance. or ARENA,
led the field in polls. But neither was
likely to receive the more than 50
percent required to avoid a runoff
election next month.
Christiani, favored to become the
country's next president, pledged
free-market policies and reduced state
intervention in the economy. His
party promised to step up the war if
the guerrillas do not agree to lay
down their arms.
Surrounded by a mob of support-
ers, Christiani voted yesterday
morning. "I hope the United states
realizes that (Salvadorans) want
democracy with this effort they're
making to vote. We don't want any
more bombs," he said.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte's
five-year term ends June 1. Duarte,
barred by law from running for re-
election, is Washington's staunchest
ally in the Western Hemisphere. He
is dying of liver cancer.
The Christian Democrats contend
ARENA has not changed much since
it was founded in 1981 by indi-
viduals allegedly linked to death
squads.
ARENA denies links to death~
squads. Christiani said the party's
ideology is similar to that of the
U.S. Republican Party.
The Democratic Convergence,
whose leaders maintain formal links
with the guerrillas, is running third
in the election, according to polls. It'
was the first election since 1977 in
which socialist candidates have
competed.
About 1.83 million people out of
a population of 5 million were eli-
gible to vote.
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