European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a the stars and stripes monday november 26,1990elections in Europe polish Runoff Likely despite Walesa s Lead Warsaw Poland a Lech Walesa who United poles in their struggle against communism led in Poland a first popular presidential election sunday but appeared headed for a Runoff according to state to exit polls. See related Story on Page 5. The Solidarity chief had 41 percent of the vote a 2-to-l Lead Over prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and political unknown Stanislaw Tyminski according to the polls. The polls indicated Mazowiecki and Tyminski each had 20.5 percent of the vote far ahead of the remaining three candidates. It was a stunning setback for Mazo Wiecki a former Walesa ally who instituted unpopular economic austerity measures after taking Over Poland a first postwar non communist government. Pollsters questioned every 20th voter at 404 polling places around the country or up to 15,000 people. The results were issued on nationwide to minutes after the polls closed at 8  local time. The poll indicated that Farmers who represent 40 percent of polish society deserted Mazowiecki in Masse. Only 4 percent of the farm vote went to the prime minister according to the poll. Farmers have been angry at the abolition of guaranteed prices for their produce under the governments Shock economic Reform plan. If no one wins 50 percent of the vote a Runoff Between the top two will be held dec. 9. Walesa himself expressed optimism after voting in Gdansk with his wife Danuta and their 18-year-old son Sla Wek Tyminski had been considered a dark horse candidate. An emigre businessman he returned to Poland this fall after 21 years in Canada and Peru. At stake in the election was the leadership of a free Poland struggling to create a Market Economy and strip away the vestiges of 45 years of communism. The new president will take Over from president Wojciech Jaruzelski the communist general who imprisoned Walesa and Mazowiecki and ordered martial Law to crush Solidarity in december 1981. Czechoslovak pro democracy parties ahead candidate Stanislaw Tyminski votes sunday in a Warsaw suburb. Prague Czechoslovakia up pro democracy groups captured the mayors office in Slovakia a two largest cities and dominated the balloting in the czech Republic in Early returns sunday. The local elections Are considered crucial to Czechoslovakia a transition to multiparty democracy. The elections held Friday and saturday in Slovakia and saturday Only in the czech Republic regions of Moravia and Bohemia were the first free balloting for local and county government offices since 1938. Winners of the citizens Council elections will replace the appointed National committees left Over from communist Rule. Early returns from elections in the czech Republic showed a turnout approaching 75 percent higher than in Slovakia with civic forum candidates leading those of the communist party. The civic forum a pro democracy umbrella group led last years a velvet revolution to overthrow four decades of communism. In Prague preliminary figures showed a 65 percent turnout but no breakdown of results was available. Civic forum candidates led in the cities of Hradec Kra love Pard Bice and hav Lickus Brod with the communists in second place. The communist party and civic forum were both expected to do Well. In Slovakia which comprises the country a two easternmost republics the average turnout was 64 percent with a higher showing in Rural areas than in the cities. The pro democracy Public against Volence civic forums sister group in Slovakia led in the cities. Slovak voters chose local and District councils As Well As mayors. In the czech Republic voters chose Only the councils which will themselves elect mayors. Pav candidate Peter Kresanek was elected mayor of Bratislava the slovak capital with 35,788 votes. Bratislava reported the lowest turnout in Slovakia with 44.5 percent while the highest was 78 percent in the town of a Ridnik. In the Industrial Center of Kosice Slovakia a second largest City 46.3 percent went to the polls and elected Jan Kop Nicky a candidate of Pav and its governing partner the Christian democratic movement. First results from the czech Republic showed an 85 percent turnout in Pilsen West Bohemia where civic forum took eight of 15 local Council seats and the communists won four seats Kohl expected to win All German vote Bonn Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohl whose Swift unification of his country astonished fans and critics alike seems assured of Victory in the first All German elections since 1933. Opinion polls forecast an easy win for the Chancellor dec. 2 Over Oskar Lafon Taine and the social democrats. Lafontaine has a made too Many mistakes a especially in his Early reluctance to support reunification and a has Tittle Chance of winning a said Dieter Roth of the Institute for election analysis and society research in Mannheim. The social democratic Leader argued Germany was moving too rapidly for the country a Good and rightly As it is turning out that unification would Cost More than predicted. In a new poll by the respected Allens Bach Institute Kohls conservative coalition won 53.7 percent approval compared with 33.4 percent for the social democrats. Kohl led by 22 percent in a poll based solely on the two menus per Sonal Appeal. At rallies Kohl confidently predicts a Bright future while Lafontaine Speaks of higher taxes and a total Bill of up to $137 billion for bringing the former East Germany up to Western Germany a standards. Kohl made a Campaign trip to the Eastern Border City of Frankfurt an Der Oder perhaps to remind voters that he and Tadeusz Mazowiecki prime minister of Poland met there nov. 8 and settled the Long disputed Boundary. More than 10,000 people filled the Bonn Market Square for an evening rally and cheered when the Chancellor walked into the crowd to shake hands. In his speech Kohl mentioned his Success in uniting the country and said a i need no lessons from that Man from Saar Brincken a a reference to Lafontaine. The challenger held his own rally in Bonn the next evening drawing a quiet crowd of about 3,000. Forty parties Are running candidates but Only a few have a real Chance of winning seats in the bundestag As Germany Calls its parliament. Among the fringe groups Are the Farmers party of former East Germany the Gray ones a party for senior citizens the women a party and the German National democrats. The Green party made up of leftists feminists and ecologists is worried about losing its traditional audiences to mainstream parties. Polls indicate some support for the greens is straying but not enough to shut them out of the bundestag. On the far right the Republican party had a meteoric Rise for two years but has lost ground to mainstream parties. Analysts do not expect it to win the 5 percent of the vote needed to attain parliamentary seats. Former East Germany a renamed communists Are expected to get in even though they were caught sending party funds out of the country to avoid seizure. Apsite Helmut Kohl Stalin s wartime Bunker opened to Public Moscow up a soviet officials secretly built a Concrete and steel Bunker outside Moscow to protect government leaders during world War ii but dictator Josef Stalin shunned it and stayed in Moscow As nazi troops approached the official news Agency said saturday. Tass said authorities revealed the existence of the Bunker and opened it to the Public in an attempt to instill Pride in the country a wartime past. The Bunker built near the Volga River dates from the fall of 1941, when the German army s Advance forced the government to relocate to Kuy Bashev 658 Miles Southeast of Moscow but unlike his wartime foe and fellow dictator Adolf Hitler who died in his Bunker with his capital of Berlin in flames Stalin never spent a moment in the steel and Cement outpost. Almost All officials did relocate to Kuy Bashev a City of 1.2 million in the fall of 1941. Even . Lenin a mummified body was taken there from his mausoleum in red Square. But Stalin remained at the Kremlin in the Nearl the Georgy Zhukov who stopper Advance near the site of Moscow a present Day Sheremetyev International Airport. A until recently the Bunker was reserved for the administration in the Case of War a Tass said saturday. Local authorities decided to turn it into a civil defense museum and will be restoring the Structure Tass added. The Bunker is now open for viewing the Agency reported. The Bunker had been stocked with All the things Stalin would have needed to direct the War from within its Walls. A next to the conference room there is a private room with a leather upholstered sofa a desk an armchair and a map of the soviet Union on the Wall a Tass said a the conference room was constructed 122 feet below the surface. The Roor boasts Walls of Oak and a parquet  although the memory of Stalin has nov been disgraced because of his Campaign of terror against the citizenry  role has not been questioned. The soviet governments opening of that Bunker was seen As an attempt to give soviets Pride in a past that has often been questioned under soviet Leader Mikhai Gorbachev a policy of perestroika