Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NADIA COMANECI Bucharest...
...Dean's December by Saul Bellow. In a tale of two cities, Bucharest and Chicago, another Nobelist meditates on the dual natures of freedom and totalitarianism. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. The family that dines together declines together in this bittersweet novel of a brave and eccentric Baltimore household...
Trifa's main accuser was Charles Kremer, a retired New York City dentist who lost family members in a 1941 riot in Bucharest. Kremer, now 84, has been trying to get U.S. officials to prosecute Trifa for 30 years. Last week, when the deportation agreement was read, Kremer was sitting in the Detroit courtroom...
With the help of his intended victims, the Rumanian double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even...
...charade worked brilliantly. Haiducu was able to return to Rumania and arrange for the departure of all but one of his family. Indeed, days before the spy-sting story broke in the Parisian press, newspapers in Bucharest reported that he had officially been commended for "out standing public service...