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Reports on Romania's first free national elections in more than 50 years. The earliest official results are expected to be issued on Tuesday, but the National Salvation Front, the group dominated by former Communists that has run Romania since the violent revolution last December, appears to be headed toward a convincing victory.

Reports on the state of excitement edged with anger and fear on the eve of the nation's first free elections in more than half a century. Expectation of a large turnout; Polls giving advantage to Ion Iliescu; National Liberation Party and the National Peasant Party; Radu Campeanu.

Says that Nicolae Ceausescu, the deposed Communist President of Rumania, and his wife, were reported captured today as the army continued to fight with the dictator's security police in Bucharest and elsewhere. Ion Iliescu has been mentioned as a potential national leader. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev plans to confer with Warsaw Pact members. American citizens in Bucharest have assembled at the American Embassy.

Reports that Rumanian government forces clashed with protesters in the streets of Bucharest today as anti-Communist demonstrations spread to the country's capital. The US Embassy in Bucharest reported that at least 13 protestors had been killed,but diplomats said the demonstrators had not been dispersed. Reports of army withdrawal; State of emergency in the Timis region.

States that, after ruling Rumania as a virtual dictator for a quarter of a century, President Nicolae Ceausescu was forced from Bucharest today when angry crowds of prodemocracy demonstrators, backed by army units, took over large sections of the capital. Unclear which side has the upper hand; State security police loyal to Ceausescu; Fierce fighting; Overview.