Word: alexandru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many Russians living in the republic believe the Moldavian government wants to reunify with Romania. Most Moldavian leaders emphatically deny this, and few observers believe the Kremlin would tolerate it. But Alexandru Moshanu, chairman of the Moldavian parliament, said last week that the future of the Soviet Union may hold only a choice between "chaos and a new dictatorship." If so, Moldavians may yet decide that they have no alternative but to try to erase the border with Romania...
...line. For miles around the notorious Romanian "black town" of Copsa Mica, the trees and grass are so stained by soot that they look as if they have been soaked in ink. "Even horses can stay here for only a couple of years," says Dr. Alexandru Balin, who works in a local occupational-health clinic. "Then they have to be taken away, or else they will...