European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Walesa wins 1st round of polish voting Warsaw Poland a Lech Walesa who United poles in their struggle against communism won the initial round in Poland a first popular presidential election sunday but appeared headed for a Runoff according to Early returns and an exit poll. Related Story on Page 5. In a surprising development prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki appeared to be in a close race against Stanislaw Tyminski for the no. 2 spot. First official returns from 270 polling stations or about 1 percent of the vote nationwide gave Walesa 39.1 percent of the vote followed by Tyminski with 23.4 percent and Mazowiecki with 20 percent. The exit poll gave Walesa the head of Solidarity 41 percent of the vote and Mazowiecki and Tyminski 20,5 percent each with the remaining three candidates sharing the rest. Tyminski a political unknown until recently is a businessman who returned to his Homeland this fall after 21 years in Canada and Peru. The second place finisher will enter a dec. 9 Runoff if the Winner fails to gain an outright majority in the first round. Pollsters questioned up to 15,000 people. The results were issued on television minutes after the polls closed at 8 . The vote was viewed As a setback for Mazowiecki a former Walesa ally who instituted unpopular austerity measures after taking command of Poland a first postwar non communist government. A no matter what the election results Are we created a basis for a broader democratic movement in Poland a Mazowiecki told supporters at a students club in Warsaw. He added later on television that he was waiting for a real results and not just some  Walesa declined immediate comment Jacek Merkel manager of Walesa a Campaign said Walesa was still awaiting final results. The new president will take Over from president Wojciech Jaruzelski the communist general who ordered martial Law to crush Solidarity and imprisoned Walesa and Mazowiecki in december 1981. Czechoslovak pro democracy parties ahead candidate Stanislaw Tyminski votes sunday in a Warsaw suburb. Prague Czechoslovakia up a 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 count Tyr 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 Little 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 s 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 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 a 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 b 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 nearly deserted capital and waited out the Battle directed by his top general Georgy Zhukov who stopped the nazi 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 rest org 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 room boasts Walls of Oak and a parquet  although the memory of Stalin has now been disgraced because of his Campaign of terror against the citizenry his wartime role has not been questioned. The soviet governments opening of the Bunker was seen As an attempt to give soviets Pride in a past that has often been 2uestioned under soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev a a policy of perestroika