SOVIET UNION : Nationalist Wins Easily in Georgia
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected president of the southern republic of Georgia, giving the anti-Communist nationalist a new mandate to push for independence from the Soviet Union, official results showed. Sunday’s balloting was the first direct election to a top post of a republic in Soviet history. Gamsakhurdia, chairman of the republic’s Parliament since free elections put a nationalist government in power last fall, won with ease, collecting 87% of the votes.
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