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DATE: TUESDAY, July 24, 1990                   TAG: 9007240457
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA                                LENGTH: Short

NON-COMMUNISTS LOSE IN MONGOLIA ELECTIONS

Communist Party candidates fighting to extend 70 years of rule defeated most of the opposition slate in the initial round of Mongolia's first multiparty election ever, the government said today.

Near-final results from Sunday's primary showed only 101 of the five opposition parties' 338 candidates survived the first round.

The Communist Party's chairman, Gombojavyn Ochirbat, said a Communist victory would not end Mongolia's transformation since December from an authoritarian, one-party state to a multiparty nation eager for Western contact and investment.

-Associated Press 


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