"This election cannot guarantee peace and stability," said the United Arab Emirates' daily Gulf News.

An election for the lower house to fill the 299 seats guaranteed to the Communist Party and its supporting groups.

While this single election doesn't guarantee that Russia will make it all the way to American-style free-market democracy, it does guarantee that the effort will move forward now with a solid popular mandate.

Even the election of his rival, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, would not guarantee the embargo would be upheld.

There is also a growing understanding that elections don't guarantee free expression or fair treatment of minorities.

The elections, while victorious for Gomułka, did not guarantee lasting changes in the Polish society.

With free elections and free travel now virtually guaranteed in the East, the wall was reduced to a benign fence between neighboring cousins.

An Evolutionary Rebuilding The Government, apparently confident that quick elections will guarantee it favorable returns, has insisted on moving up elections, originally planned for autumn, to June 4.

The best weapon is a free election; free and fair elections will guarantee the democratic structures which will put an end to this state of affairs, and that is the demand we should all be making.

The last election, held under the terms of a deal between the Communists and Solidarity movement in 1989, guaranteed 65 percent of the seats in the lower house to Communists.