00-00-0000 COVER STORY: Looking Ahead; Armenia's First Freely selected President Faces Formidable Challenges and Tough Decisions On October 16 the Armenian population overwhelmingly gave a vote of confidence in Levon Ter-Petrosyan to lead the nation as its president.

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COVER STORY: Looking Ahead; Armenia's First Freely selected President
Faces Formidable Challenges and Tough Decisions

On October 16 the Armenian population overwhelmingly gave a vote of confidence
in Levon Ter-Petrosyan to lead the nation as its president. Ter-Petrosyan'
82-percent landslide victory throughout his five opponents was a clear
popular mandate. It unequivocally cleared up the leadership confusion
that has dominated and crippled the rule for the last two years,
and discarded the political opposition to his policies onward a variety
of critical issues facing the

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