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Show _The Salt Lake TribuneWORLDThursday,June3,1999 AQ ANc Rolls toAnother Win in South Africa Drought May Soon Bring Iraq Food ‘Catastrophe’ 2nd post-apartheid vote is a peaceful success U.N. aid will be sought to cover projected shortages ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca — The Nelson Mandela era BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq is en- ended peacefully Wednesday with a joyful election that pro- duringits worst drought in nearly 100 years and will soon face a whelming victory five years after food “catastrophe” if new aid funds are not immediately found. U.N. and Iraqi officials said pelled the African National Congress (ANC) to another overSouth Africans cast off the evil of Wednesday. apartheid. According to figures released On a day bathed in good will, millions of voters stood in lines — Tuesday by the UN. Food and Agriculture Organization, Iraq has lost about 70 percent ofits cope in the country’s breadbaset. “The low rainfall and higher some that snaked for miles — and others turned out hours before dawn. Black mothers with babies on their backs stood beside elderly white men in suits. Voters wrapped in blankets stood in the temperatures have had a disastrous effect on crops and live stock in Iraq,” Hans von Sponeck Iraq's U.N. humanitarian coordi- coid morningair. Some rural residents went to polling stations on horseback. nator,told reporters. More alarming, according to Together they tested the strength of their young democra- von Sponeck, is the fact that 90 cy on a continent where two consecutive free elections are rare. — the 9 p.m. closing. Election offi- white minority rule and sent Mandela, who spent 27 years asa pris- cials ordered them to stay open until voting was done. Overall, voting went smoothly. No serious election-related violence was reported, said security minister Sidney Mufamadi, who onerofthe apartheid state,to the presidency. With 30 percent of voting distriets reporting early today, the ANChad 51percent; New Nation- heid ruler, 17 percent; once-liberal-but-right-leaning Democratic Party, 15 percent; and Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party, 8 percent. “It gives me a wonderful feeling,” Mandela said after voting at a country club in his upscale Johannesburg neighborhood. Polls predicted Mandela's for- Smaller parties divided the mer liberation movement would rest. The ANC’s portion was expected to grow as urban results capture morethan haif the ballots of the nation’s 18.2 million regis- cameinlater. Turnout was around 85 percent,election officials said. Theelection was viewed as the tered voters. Suspense lay in secondary is- sues of whether the ANC would close of a period of racial recon- gain the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution, whether it would take power in the two of nine provinces it ciliation nurtured by Mandela, whoplans to retire, and the arrival of a new generation of ANC leaders. They include pragmatic doesn’t control and whether the administrators, such as the inteland articulate president, Thabo Mbeki. Democratic Party would overtake the New National Partyas official opposition. deputy oo ter Dejong/The Associated ‘This election was far different Mbeki is expected to be chosen president by the newly elected National Assembly and inaugu- from the chaotic, euphoric 1994 vote that was nearly a national act ofliberation. All residents needed wasan ID to vote, and some noncitizens even cast ballots. That rated June 16. He will face the monumental task of quickly improving living standards for blacks, Wednesday's voting extended into early today after manypolling? stationsstill had longlines at election took three days and was beset by chaos —a lack of ballots, charges of fraud, and a weeklong counting process. It was Preceded! and 859,000 tons of barley But Khalil s new govem il figures showed that the bir arvest will actually beat 1 90 percent belowlast yews yields. The prospect for wheatis also bleak, hesaid. Bothofficials expressed feds aboul whether the governmét will be able to sustain ifs food & tioning system, upon which nil lions of Iraqis depend for sust nance, Von Sponeckwill travel to Nw York next week to ask the Uj Security Council for immedide additional funding to help mit Iraq's food needs He said relief aid pouring inp Iraq undertheoil program, whit allows oil exports of $5.2 billig, percent of the wheat and barley fields in these areas “have failed to germinate.” “A catastrophe,” he declared. every six months, is “inad Last month, a U.N. reportre- levels across Iraq were only 3 leased in Baghdad said Iraq was facing grain harvests of only a percent of normal. Khalil said tk third of what they werelast year, drought wasthe severest Iraq he had since it began keeping rt when government granaries col- cords in 1903 quate* Senior Iraqi agricultureofficdl Abdulsattar Salaman said wat Hezbollah Attack UnnervesIsraelis deployed more than 100,000 soldiers andpolice to keep order. al Party, successor to the apart- lectual A ThembaHadebe/The Associated Press South Africansline up at a polling station north of Johannesburg for Wednesday'svote. And the black majority had its first chance to vote since theallrace elections of 1994 ended lected 1.2 million tons of whtat by deadly black-on-black violence and fatal bombingsby whiteright- South African President Nelson Mandela gives a thumbs-up Wednesdayafter casting his ballot in Johannesburg in the country’s secondall-race elections. Mandela was not running forre-election but his African National Congress party was expected to win. cated computer system to count votes was set up. Most importantly, the campaign was peaceful, despiteisolated incidents of poster-defacing, gunfire at rallies and at least one gasoline bombingof a local lead- ists. Wednesday's vote was a much more pedestrian exercise in democracy. South Africans had to register, using Buell regulated identification cards. A sophisti er THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel — Residents of this Israeli town on the border with Lebanon feel their worst suspicions have been confirmed. Defying Israel's expectations, Hezbollah guerrillas pounded a retreating Israeli-backed militia rather than let its withdrawal from a southern Lebanese town proceed quietly Tuesday as a test run for a possible pullout of Israeli troops. Israel responded with a fierce missile attack Wednesday on sus. pected guerrilla strongholds. 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