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- <text id=90TT2041>
- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: World Notes:Mongolia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 40
- World Notes
- MONGOLIA
- Quantum Leap To Democracy
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The world's second oldest Communist state took a step toward
- democracy last week when it held its first free multiparty
- elections ever. About 92% of Mongolia's 735,000 registered
- voters cast ballots.
- </p>
- <p> As expected, the ruling Communist Mongolian People's
- Revolutionary Party took advantage of superior organization and
- finances to rout the fledgling opposition. Of 799 candidates
- who survived the first round of voting, virtually all but 101
- were Communists. The winners will compete this week in a runoff
- for 430 seats on the People's Great Hural, the national
- parliament.
- </p>
- <p> Washington hailed the election as a sign of the Mongolian
- people's commitment to a democratic system. "The Communists won
- in Bulgaria too," said Secretary of State James Baker, who is
- to arrive in Mongolia Thursday for a four-day visit. "So you
- shouldn't test a democracy by whether or not your favorite
- might win."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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