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...members -- 3.8 million before the revolution -- can be ruled out of public life, and some may in time prove their worth. In any case, practicality demands that the government retain at least part of the old bureaucracy in the interest of survival. "What can we do?" asked Corneliu Bogdan, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "There is no question of vengeance." But, he added, "we hope gradually to weed out all the top officials who supported Ceausescu." That kind of compromise made many newly liberated Rumanians uneasy about a potential alliance between the army and the bureaucracy -- and a possible new dictatorship...
There were persistent rumors last week that mercenaries from Libya, Iran and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been taken into the Securitate and were conducting urban guerrilla raids around the country. At the Foreign Ministry, Bogdan said he had received "denials to our satisfaction from these Arab governments." But in Washington, Silviu Turcu, a high-level Rumanian intelligence official who defected to the U.S. a year ago, said up to 500 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, could have been involved in the fighting...
...prisoner would give the Securitate a reason for fighting on. Some members of the Front may have thought it a good idea to offer the Rumanian people some blood quickly in order to head off wider vengeance directed against communists in general. "A long trial," said Deputy Foreign Minister Bogdan, "would only have led to more useless carnage...
...political reforms in Poland have the most dramatic flair of any in the Communist world, in part because they are being won under the inspiring banner of Solidarity. Roughhewn shipyard workers such as Lech Walesa and Bogdan Lis survived seven years of repression, forced the government into half-free elections, then humiliated...