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...second sound bites. I live close to Saddam's borders, and he worries me very much. He is clearly irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. He is driven only by greed and impulse and has no regard for humanity. That was Albright's message, and it was the truth. DANA SAUR Bucharest...
...agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
Hungary is a small country, not often in the world news ("Is the capital Budapest or Bucharest?" people ask without embarrassment). But 40 years ago today, and for a few dramatic weeks thereafter, it occupied center stage in world affairs. On the night of October 23, 1956, a crowd led by students and workers, soon to be known as freedom fighters, toppled the colossal statue of Stalin that had dominated the main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army...
Honesty, they say, is the best policy, but for 1970s tennis bad-boy ILIE NASTASE, in his campaign for mayor of Bucharest, it's the only policy. "Everybody's lying in this city," says Nastase, who clearly isn't going to flatter his way into the job. "I want to be the first Romanian who didn't lie." Nastase, a little chubbier and wrinklier than when he won every Grand Slam title except Wimbledon, but with the same swinging '70s hairstyle, got the notion to run after a friend persuaded him to join the ruling Social Democracy Party last September...
Brancusi was born in 1876, in a small village in Romania. He completed a long and thorough training in sculpture in Bucharest before reaching Paris, almost penniless, in 1904. He even worked briefly as a studio menial for Auguste Rodin before quitting in the realization that, as he later put it, nothing grows under great trees. Throughout his life, legends stuck to Brancusi like burrs; he was apt to be seen as a peasant sage, a Carpathian exotic (to most Parisians, Romania barely qualified as part of Europe). And he seemed even more of an original to American collectors...