The World - News from Feb. 28, 1988
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Voters in Senegal go to the polls today for presidential and parliamentary elections. President Abdou Diouf, 52, is expected to win a second term. Diouf has said that if he is reelected, he will undertake a “moral cleansing” of the country on the bulge of West Africa. Campaigning ended last week in controversy over the banning of a rally for opposition candidate Abdoulaye Wade in the town of Thies, where police had fought Wade supporters the day before.
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