Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: World IN BRIEF EGYPT Muslims Achieve Toehold in Election Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 07:07:09 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: World IN BRIEF EGYPT Muslims Achieve Toehold in Election Publication Date: Thursday November 5, 1992 BYLINE: Muslim fundamentalists won a toehold in Egyptian local governments after mounting their first electoral challenge in five years. Early results from voting for local and provincial councils showed the Socialist Labor Party, under whose flag the officially illegal Muslim Brotherhood campaigned, had won 36 contests. The other main opposition party, the liberal Wafd, won 11. The government's own National Democratic Party won 298 of the 421 contests. It had already won 2,348 contests unopposed. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM