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...better in this benighted land. The government has passed some privatization laws, but quasi-communists within the ruling National Salvation Front have blocked any deeper reform. The moves so far have served mainly to spur inflation and unemployment without easing the severe shortages of all consumer goods, including food. Bulgaria at least has enough to eat, thanks largely to the fertility of its soil and the skill of its farmers. It has also made some progress toward political freedom: incumbent President Zhelyu Zhelev, chosen in 1990 by the parliament, won the nation's first direct presidential election last month against...
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Millions of jubilant Bulgarians celebrated the victory last week of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces over the Socialists, as the former communists are now called, in the nation's second multiparty parliamentary elections. "You are free! The age of communism in Bulgaria is over!" shouted U.D.F. leader Filip Dimitrov, who was later nominated to be Prime Minister...
...parliament. But the ethnic Turks, who were widely persecuted under the communists, are asking for at least one ministry -- a demand that the Socialists, in turn, are using to fan fears of Turkish separatism. Exactly how the U.D.F. deals with this dilemma will demonstrate to what degree post communist Bulgaria is committed to multiparty democracy...