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...with slightly fewer people (23 million) than California, Rumania was a major presence at the Olympics. The land of plentiful wine and comely gymnasts accounted for more medals than any country except the U.S. and West Germany. That would be reason enough to cause dancing in the streets of Bucharest. Yet Rumania's strong showing was even more welcome because it justified a decision to show up at all, disregarding the Soviet-sponsored boycott. If that were not sufficiently gratifying, the roaring ovation that greeted the team's entry into the Coliseum on opening day would have been...
...elite brigades of global social science, will converge on Mexico City next week to tackle a formidable issue: the relentless growth of world population. They will hear some good news. In the ten years since the last United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Population, which was held in Bucharest, the annual growth rate of the world's population has declined from...
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...