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...might have been delivered as fittingly in Warsaw, Budapest, East Berlin, Bucharest or Sofia. For while the changing of the calendar rarely signifies the change of much else, the advent of 1990 throughout Eastern Europe gave the sense that a corner had been turned, that the time for the celebration of a revolution was passing and the time for the painful work of political, economic and moral reconstruction had begun...
...capital and other parts of the country, several days of heavy fighting between the army and holdout members of the Securitate, Ceausescu's omnipresent secret police, were followed by sporadic sniping and skirmishing. In front of the all-seeing television cameras at Bucharest's national TV studio, where tanks and troops had beaten back several determined Securitate assaults, a self-appointed 60-member National Salvation Front took charge of the country and named a transitional government until free elections, promised for April, could be held. In short order, demonstrators stormed back into the streets to oppose the inclusion of former...
...could the caretaker government be certain of security. It appealed "for an end to acts of revenge," but Securitate gunmen sniped intermittently from Bucharest's rooftops; others were believed to be hiding out in a maze of tunnels and secret passages Ceausescu had constructed under the capital's streets. Fighting around the city's international airport forced the frequent interruption of flights. There were ongoing firefights in Timisoara, Arad and Brasov...
Returning from Tehran, Ceausescu found that demonstrations had flared throughout the country and into Bucharest, where he came face to face with rebellion in Palace Square, outside his office. At a rally called to prove his popularity, he was silenced by students shouting "Ceausescu, assassin!" Visibly shocked, he froze, and television transmission was cut off for three minutes. He ordered the Securitate to shoot, but at that point the army switched allegiance -- and that was the beginning of the end for Ceausescu, who fled with his wife. TV newsreaders in Bucharest claimed last week that 80,000 people or more...
When the revolt erupted, many Securitate members slipped into an elaborate network of tunnels, whose existence was a well-guarded secret. The underground passageways link security headquarters, Communist Party headquarters, the presidential palace in central Bucharest and other key government buildings. The tunnels made it possible for Securitate members to escape the initial onslaught by soldiers and armed civilians and then regroup to attack the revolutionary forces. Securitate assaults in Bucharest and elsewhere in the country were carried out with arms and ammunition stored in caches secretly assembled outside the force's official camps...