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MADAGASCAR Poll Rivals Talk The Organization of African Unity came to the rescue to resolve a crisis over disputed results in December's presidential election. OAU chief Amara Essy brought President Didier Ratsiraka and opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana together for talks to end masssive protests over the poll. The second round of voting has been postponed until a commission representing both sides can find a way forward...
...thousands of people joined opposition rallies in Antananarivo, the capital, as antigovernment forces pledged to press on with a strike that has paralyzed the country for two weeks. Opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana claims to have won the Dec. 16 presidential vote but says that backers of incumbent Didier Ratsiraka rigged results to force a runoff...
Sixteen opposition parties and many of Madagascar's 12 million people are convinced that President Didier Ratsiraka rigged his 1989 re-election to a third seven-year term...
...rival and more recent claim has been instituted by Madagascar, 260 miles to the west. Madagascar's President Didier Ratsiraka last month announced that his Marxist republic is the rightful owner not only of Tromelin but of three other small French islands: Europa, Juan de Nova and Glorieuses. It is said that Ratsiraka wants Tromelin in order to establish a Soviet base there. That seems unlikely: because of the coral reefs, large ships could never venture inshore, and Tromelin is so small that a large airplane would run out of island before it could brake to a stop...