Aquino Choices Leading Races

Early returns today showed President Corazon Aquino’s choices leading several key races in regional elections marred by the killing of a campaign worker and a score of other violent incidents.

Ramon Felipe, chairman of the Elections Commission, said about 80% of the 27 million eligible voters cast ballots Monday in 62 of the 73 provinces into which the archipelago’s 7,100 islands are divided. Fears of violence caused voting in the other 11 to be rescheduled for various dates.