World IN BRIEF : MONGOLIA : Opposition Group to Hold 1st Congress
From Times staff and Wire reports
The newly formed Mongolian Democratic Assn. will hold its first congress in Ulan Bator today, at which about 500 national delegates are expected to make radical demands and proclaim themselves Mongolia’s first opposition party. Signaling a concession to democratic demands, the government is removing the last statue of dictator Josef Stalin in Ulan Bator, a state-run newspaper said. “The statue has received much (public) displeasure,” the newspaper said.
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