Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story going around Kinshasa is that one night late last December, Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko was entertaining a roomful of dinner guests when the television broadcast news of Nicolae Ceausescu's precipitate execution in Bucharest. Mobutu had long counted as a friend the Romanian autarch, who came to power in 1965, as he did. At the sight of that familiar face wreathed in blood, Mobutu abruptly left the room, abandoning his visitors without a word...
...running for office to eliminate the effects of the dictatorship," the candidate explains. "The land must be given back to you." It is the first time since 1946 that anyone has campaigned for public office in Floresti (pop. 2,000), 340 km northwest of Bucharest, where most of the villagers are employed on a nearby state-owned farming cooperative. But with multiparty elections scheduled for this Sunday and more than 80 political parties in the race, the farm workers are curious about both the process and the promises...
...transitional body. Last month in Timisoara, where the revolution that led to Ceausescu's ouster and execution began on Dec. 17, the Front's opponents called for a ban on former Communists contesting elections for ten years. Protests against the Front have been staged in other cities, including Bucharest, where thousands gather daily to denounce Iliescu and other former Communists...
Hope for the future is fading among many Romanians, only four months after the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Last week crowds of up to 4,000 opponents of the National Salvation Front, the transitional government that took power after Ceausescu's hurried execution, protested in Bucharest against interim President Ion Iliescu, whom they accuse of still sympathizing with communism. Romanian newspapers and witnesses reported that police beat some of the demonstrators, a charge denied by the government...
...biggest obstacles to educational reform in the East bloc. In Poland poor working conditions and low pay have led to a shortage of 100,000 teachers. Romanian educators are appealing to the West for typewriters, copying machines, computers, calculators and books. They are also seeking funds to rebuild the Bucharest University library, which was badly damaged during last winter's revolution...