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DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152654
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA                                LENGTH: Short

MONGOLIAN LEADERS RELINQUISHING POWER

The country's Communists agreed today to give up their nearly seven-decade-old monopoly on power, and official newspapers reported the nation's president and prime minister had offered to resign.

The changes in the longtime Kremlin satellite that borders the Soviet Union and China met nearly all the demands by opposition parties who have led thousands of people through the capital's streets in anti-government protests.

President Jambyn Batmonh, 64, and Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, 56, had already stepped down this week as members of the ruling Communist Party's Politburo, and Batmonh quit as party leader.

-Associated Press 


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