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DATE: MONDAY, July 30, 1990                   TAG: 9007300260
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA                                LENGTH: Short

OVER 90 CAST BALLOTS IN MONGOLIAN ELECTION

More than 90 percent of eligible voters cast ballots to determine whether the Communists should stay in power, and early results showed that the party leader won election over a political neophyte.

Some people traveled in heavy rains that washed out roads to vote Sunday in the Central Asian country's first multiparty parliamentary elections.

After nearly seven decades of authoritarian Communist rule, Mongolia joined the ranks of Soviet-bloc countries that are experimenting with democracy.

- Associated Press 


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