USSR: Democracy — Gorbachev Gives an Inch

International Viewpoint No. 160, 3 April 1989 · p 28 · 94 words

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Gorbachev's elections

FOR THE FIRST TIME since Lenin's day, on March 26 many Soviet voters will have the opportunity to express a cholce. There Is more than one candidate for about three fourths of the seats in the People's Congress that Is to be elected on that date. But a nearly fool-proof selection process has weeded out most challenges to the Communist Party, except In the

Baltic republics and in a few other cases such as that of former Moscow chief Borls Yeltsin - Gorbachev's enfant terrible - and S. Stankevich, candidate of the