Word: ceausescu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days the comparisons are far less flattering. At rallies, protesters chant "Ceausescu, Ceausescu!" Gamsakhurdia apparently takes seriously the reference to Romania's toppled, and summarily executed, dictator. For the past three weeks he has barricaded himself inside the Georgian parliament, where he is guarded by hundreds of National Guardsmen. When he ventures out, it is in one of two bulletproof Mercedes, for which Gamsakhurdia spent $460,000. But he bristles at being compared with the Romanian. "These people do not know what a dictator really is," he fumes, his dark eyes smoldering. "Could you really imagine such actions...
...return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for vengeance. Except for Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who underwent a televised trial and execution, relatively few former communist leaders have been prosecuted, and none executed...
...East European countries, though always with a new name. The Bulgarian Socialist Party -- the old Communist Party with a new label -- emerged victorious in May 1990 in the country's first free parliamentary elections in 50 years. That same month, Romanian Ion Iliescu, a communist official under the hated Ceausescu, won a two-year term as interim President with a startling 85% of the vote. His party, the National Salvation Front, had shed its identity as the Communist Party only weeks earlier...
...capture rock's old outlaw image by overthrowing the sugarcoated commercialism prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission," the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included on the album are the songs Ceausescu Flashback; Look What I Stole for Us, Darling; and More Smack, Vicar...
Lies of Our Times seems to despise everything the Times does, says or thinks. It accuses the paper of going out of its way to kick Fidel Castro, of ignoring Yasser Arafat's efforts to promote peace in the Middle East, of deliberately being mean to Nicolae Ceausescu and of overlooking the testimony of a waitress who once worked for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby. In recent issues, Lies has denounced as "outrageously, insultingly, totally false" the seemingly plausible contention that the elderly in the U.S. have a relatively well-organized political lobby, and blasted a Times reporter...