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World news Marcos leading Aquino in official count ■ ■ . ' .... '' MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Fer dinand Marcos was well ahead Thursday in the official vote count by the National Assembly, which his party controls. Corazon Aquino, who claims she won the election, said he must resign to prevent violence. Aquino’s aides reported that another of her campaign workers was killed Thursday, bringing the total since the Feb. 7 presidential election to more than 20. After seven hours of tabulating tally sheets from the archipelago’s 74 provinces and more than 60 cities, the assembly had Marcos ahead with 6,403,785 votes to 5,584,581 for Aquino. That gave Marcos an edge of about 53 percent to Aquino’s 46 percent with about 46 percent of the votes tallied. The assembly's count determines the out come under Philippine law. The National Movement for Free Elections, an independent poll-watchers' group called Nam frel, had Aquino ahead in its unofficial count. It gave her 7,158,679 votes to 6,532.362 for Marcos, based on 64 percent of more than 86.000 precincts reporting. The tally sheet delivered to the National Assembly from the president's home province of Ilocos Norte said the votes came from 761 precincts. The province has 624 registered precincts, Aquino claims the elections were fraudulent and the National Assembly’s canvass is rigged. Marcos, who has governed the Philippines for 20 years, appeared on government television and pledged to "honor, without reservations, the people's verdict at the polls." The president deplored the violence and said he also had lost supporters, including a town mayor he said was killed by communist rebels "encouraged by the opposition." Aquino said the president should resign because "the failure of the electoral process to move swiftly to a fair conclusion has dangerously heightened tensions." An aide read her statement soon after the Marcos broadcast. She said the resignation would “defuse some of the swelling political anger" of Filipinos who feel they have been cheated, and allow the ques tion of who won the election to be settled in a manner acceptable to all. She did not say how that could be done. ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR PROMOTIONS IS BACK!!! Buy Any of these Great CBS Albums or Cassettes and if you’re not Happy with what you hear, bring it back within 30 Days with your receipt for a FREE REFUND! DIVINYLS + WHAT A LITE! HIROSHIMA ANOTHER PLACE 5th & Willamette Mon Tours 10-9 | Fri Sal 10 10 Sun 115 687 0761 Your Choice Just... BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE . mfcv - w KICK AXE WELCOME TO THE CLUS .-JTOLes. <ESD BANGLES *v DIFFERENT LIGHT _ ^ Records and Tapes ‘Your One Stop Total Entertainment Store' )A Hull Cantor Ticket Outlet Valley River Center Mon -Fri 10-9 ' Sal 10 6 Sun 119 6638330 Page 4A „ . • .0 v. . . • ; C • ° . ;<? ' ' : Election watchers report rip fraud on Aquino’s side ... # . . * * ’ .•’* f3 * **•. WASHINGTON (AP) — Several members of.Ihe tJ.Sl.team sent • toobserv«? the/Philippine election dispute President Reagan'* asser _ tion that violence and fraud can be blamed equally. on supporters 01 President Ferdinand.Marcos and his challenger. Cora/bn Aquino ” \ f-Ke election watchers said Wednesday that‘because theelec Uon machinery „wbs controlled by the Mart.os government. there wm little opportunity for cheating by Aquino's supporters, while .thVrewas apparent- manipulation of the -government’s vote .count A congressional aide, who asked not to be identified by. name. ^ said the delegation head. Sen. Richard Lugfr. R-Ind., belie vesthe Reagan administration should not concetde’the. election to Marcos .because "it was o.ur impression that Marcos apparently, did not steal enough vptes to win in any legitimate way.” o' ’ Reagan told a news conference Tuesday night that he was "concerned about the violence... and the possibility of fraud, although it could have been that all of that was occurring on both sides.!'' . ; '■ Rut according to I.ugar spokesman Mark Helrhke, ■' 'The delega* tion received 100 times more reports of alleged fraud by the Marcos side than came in about the Aquino side. Rut no .one was able to confirm reports of fraud" by Aquino supporters.- by llnida.' her'Pp position party, or by Namfrel, the National Movement for Free Elections. • One delegate, Mortimer Zuckerman, publisher ofU.S. News & World Report, said he agrees with the president's efforts to distance himself equally from both sides to avoid prejudicing the eventual outcome. Paper shut down, mayor arrested as Haiti’s new rulers reorganizing PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti (APJ — Haiti's new rulers shut down the government newspaper, announced the ar rest of the capital city’s mayor and said they may consider con fiscating the property of depos ed President Jean-Claude Duvalier. The six-man National Government Council on Wednesday ordered the paper Le Nouveau Monde closed "for reorganization," but did not say when it might be reopened. Other newspapers, some of which had been pro-Duvaiier but privately owned, continue to publish. The military-civilian council took power Feb. 7 when thivalier, "president for life" since inheriting the title from his father Francois Duvaller in 1971, fled to temporary exile in France. Police said they arrested the capital's mayor, former army Col. Frank Remain, Tuesday night and that he was in protec tive custody. Neighbors said a convoy of police vehicles whisked him off as a mob was threatening his home.