Hard-liners push to halt Soviet food aid debate
In Moscow a faction of hard-line Centrist Bloc lawmakers condemned Gorbachev for turning the Soviet Union into a beggar nation and urged an immediate rejection of international aid. Moscow officials say half a million residents urgently need aid amid worsening shortages as hundreds of tons of food and medicine arrive from the United States and Europe.
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Poles vote in pivotal president election in Poland
Poles head to polling stations across the country to choose between Lech Walesa and Stanislaw Tyminski after a high stakes campaign. Walesa leads in polls, with Tyminski rising from obscurity to challenge the Solidarity icon.
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