
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003071715
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: MOSCOW                                 LENGTH: Short

NOT ALL OLD-LINE SOVIETS SWEPT OUT OF OFFICES

Official election returns trickling in Tuesday appeared to bear out pro-democracy movements' claims of widespread victories in the country's Slavic heartland, but they also showed Soviet officialdom winning several key races.

Communist Party and government officials who won seats in Sunday's local elections included the Ukraine's prime minister, Vitaly Masol, several chiefs of the Ukraine's Communist Party, and the president and prime minister of Byelorussia, the state-run news agency Tass reported.

by CNB