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HARARE, MARCH 31. The Zimbabwean, President Robert Mugabe, led Zimbabwe's ruling party into elections today vowing to crush a weakened Opposition in a poll already attacked as unfair by the United States and Europe. Thousands of voters defying an early drizzle huddled under umbrellas in orderly queues that formed at polling stations in the capital Harare hours before polls opened at 7 a.m. local time. The picture was the same in provincial towns and rural areas where many voters came on bicycles and in donkey-drawn carts. ``We wanted to come early to exercise our right to vote,'' said Alfred Moyo, who drove his elderly mother and mother-in-law to vote at a station north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city. But in the first report of trouble, the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said one of its candidates in its southern Matabeleland stronghold had disappeared after an attack by ruling party supporters on the eve of the poll. — Reuters/AFP
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