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...monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with all their heart, all their soul, all their might. Last week Mihaesco drew a sequel, the boulder smashed into pieces, which TIME set with the original to form a visual...
...Mihaesco, the personal cost has been heavy. Ceausescu was enraged at the drawings. In early 1989 Mihaesco's 79-year-old father Nicolae, who lives in Bucharest, was sacked from his job, isolated from his friends and ordered to rein in his "seditious" son. "I'm crushed if you go on," Nicolae told Eugene by telephone. "They will destroy me, destroy your mother." Grasping for a solution, the artist screamed at his father -- and the eavesdropping police -- "Don't tell me what to do. I disinherit you!" Children do not disinherit parents; this artist is crazy. Or so Mihaesco hoped...
...dusk on Christmas Day, wearing their overcoats, he and Elena, the second most powerful figure in the country, were executed, without blindfolds, before a barracks wall at the Boteni army camp outside Bucharest. There had been 300 volunteers for the three-man firing squad, a military spokesman who had been present said later, and the actual execution was not filmed because some of the soldiers began shooting as soon as they faced the Ceausescus...
...crowd of protesters in the square poured into nearby Magheru Boulevard and swelled to thousands. Shouts of "Freedom!" and "Down with Ceausescu!" rang out. Tanks, troops and helicopters herded the marchers into University Square, ringed by the University of Bucharest, the National Theater and the 22-story Intercontinental Hotel. A tank rolled over two demonstrators, and as others ran to help them, they were shot down by automatic-weapons fire. At least 13 were killed, the American embassy reported. The streets did not clear, however, and more people were shot during the night...
...European Community has already dispatched planeloads of food and medical supplies to Bucharest. Gorbachev and the Soviet parliament have passed a resolution of "support for the just cause of the people of Rumania." In the days ahead, the people of Rumania will need all the help they can garner from both East and West if they are to recover from their bloody rebirth...