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Violence mars Filipino elections M ANILA Philippines i A:' Filipinos bag .in choosing .1 mu 1 fssur lit President (.ora /on Aquino on Monday after administration fort es mount. «d .1 last-minute drive u> slop an aliv of Lord in and Mart os from winning (.onimunisl rebels killed 15 politic Sunday, raising fears that major violence < ould still -.erupt during the balloting and the long, cumbersome ballot count More than Hid,0(H).soldiers- and po lice were on full alert Before dawn Monday, two unidentified people were killed when gunmen of tar ke I a police post in Pangasinan province north ol Manila, arid a small bomb exploded in front of the Mam ia h nine of .1 congressional r andidato. injuring one person, offii ials said Aipnno. who (s not running, promised a Irel and fair election--. She is supporting lormet I>■ fense Sin rotarv Fidel Kanins, one of seven pros! dent la I Aspirants No (dear leader has emerged from among the contenders, who include Man os w idow luvnlda Some 10 percent of the voters were (relieved to bo undecided llie polls opened at 7 am (7 pill HUT), hut the first unofficial results w ere not expet led until at lonst H> hours later and ron< lusixe results could l.ikir days \ brisk turnout u.is reported, .mil officials predtt tod HS percent ol the \2 mil lion eligible voters would c ast fwllots Several polling stations around Mam I a o , .Tied problems with insulin len't ballots Thetuimmi sion on Idee l ion said some groups had been spreading false rumors that local rivals had t»-en disqualified The candidates unhide businessman Kduardo "Danding' ( opiangto. House Speaker Ramon Mitra. .’ofmer judge Miriam Delensor Santiago Alt' President Salvador laurel and Sen Invito Salongii rbe (lomm ission orr Ivlei turns estimates the wanner imiv take no more than Jf> percent ol the vote hardly a, convincing' mandate to govern a country beset by massive poverty soc ial, injustice and one of the -world's last active Marxist insur gem res Only Mrs Mateos anil Mrs Saul.ago have gen ended genuine excitement hnelda Marcos still maintains an ardent iollow mg. espec ially among the poor and among her late- husband s dellms Hoc .mo language speaker-, though she is given little chant e ol winning Troops fire on protesters in former Soviet republic Dl'SHANUh, Tajikistan (AJ*V k(di troops loyal !n the embattled president ol this (arntral Asian republic: lired on a crowd of unarmed protesters Sunday. killing at lists! lour witnesses sail! A news report pul the death loll as high .is eight The shooting look plm i' In front nl ms rvt police Insnl quarters where President Kakhman Nabivev is report rd by Kussiiin news agencies to have lakrn refuge lh> is locked In a power struggle with Muslim opposition groups who h ive demanded greater religious and politi i al freedoms After the shooting, the groups iiroke oil talks with the hard line former nun munist government on a transfer of power At U-.i>t II pimple li.ni1 bean reported. killed in a weak of imri’St atniaii at ousting Nabivav. who was msuliad attar Ilia hanMlna . m ;i ,:, Mosi tiw last AiijJUSl Opposition groups i lalni tha di ath toll is as high as 10 to fa), !ui! tha figures could not tia independently i onl'irinail h. Isnw hero. \ /.erhaija n l forces said they recaptured their stronghold n! Shush.i in Nagorno harabakh, tha mostly (Ihristiun Armenian region within Muslim A/.at haijan Armenian off it luls denied tha claim Armania appealed to tha !! N Saour 11\ ( onni11 to s a n d p a a ( e k a a p a r s to Nagorno harahakh, whara mora than l.MK) people lima ;iia.I m lighting in tin ant Visits INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS Lava flows again in Sicily ZAH-'LKANA I’i'NhA, Sicily lAPi Alter a twn we. k respite residents id this Iowa on the slopes nt Mount Line on Sunday again laced the sight of lav.i flowing their way. authorities said Tht! lave spilled over the lust of u series of earthen barriers Imllt by soldiers and local people outside Zalferana htnea, civil protei lion ofllcials said But they said the town was not in immediate danger The lava was abuul HOI) yards from the town Its speed varied sometimes reaching four yards an hour, said ollu tals in Zeller.mu The lava las! i tossed the earthen harrier on April 2 i Authorities stopped the lava from udvatu ing that time In using explosives and concrete blinks further up the mountain to split the fast-moving lav a into dozens of tmv sire.ims Lebanon in economic turmoil HURL' i , Lebanon fAI*) - President Idles Hravvt on Sunday ot!i cially ac< epted the resignation ot Prime Minister Omar kar.mu tendered last week amid tho country's worst erononu, i reus m IH v ears of independence The president asked that Karelin's tO-muii l whine! slay on .is a i an taker until the formation of a new government an aruioam hum it from the presidential pului e s.o.l | fie statement w as released utter U raw is return from tvs o days of talks with Syrian President Hate/ Assad oil ways to aver! a power vacuum following Karanu's resignation No oltu tal statemen! re guiding the talks was issued in Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon Kurarni submitted the resignation of his ( ahmet on Wednesday alter two days of nationwide protests against skyrocketing prices due to the dev ablation of the Lebanese currency The Lebanese pound, ont e the most sound i urrerii v in the Middle Last, plunged to a record low of 2.1(M) to the dollar on I uesday fi had sold for HHU to the dollar in February Life returning to normal in Kabul KADIiL Afghanistan (AP) Rival guerrilla groups were extend ing a cease-fire, possibly for another It) days, officials said Sunday Hut both sides made preparations lor more fighting Also Sunday, the new Islamic government announced that there would he no new national laws or a constitution until a permanent government was in place I hat could lake as long .is two years A decree by interim President Sibghatullah Mojaddidl read on stale-run television said Islamic law. or sharia, would be used Meanwhile, life was slowly returning to normal In the battered Afghan capital School re-opened over the weekend, and supplies of electricity and water were almost normal Food prices plummet ed to their lowest point in months on a CLOUD? 1 1 22 AIDER 686-5069 ^ Cash For Textbooks Mon. 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