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Babies are born with malformed hearts, children suffer from bronchial asthma, and adults struggle with lead poisoning. Suau's stark photographs are but one glimpse of the anguished land left behind by Nicolae Ceausescu, who put Copsa Mica (pop. 6,000) into industrial overdrive. Situated 150 miles northwest of Bucharest, the town is in the county of Sibiu, which was once governed by the late dictator's son Nicu. Likely to go on trial within the next few months, Nicu could receive life imprisonment if convicted. A more appropriate punishment might be to sentence him to spend the rest...
...eroded some," says Smith. "It could be argued that he would win an open election even today." The "maximum leader" maintains his high favor by constantly mixing with ordinary folks, thereby cultivating a keen sense of popular sentiment. Observes a senior Cuban official: "He is not like Honecker and Ceausescu, who lost touch with their people." And unlike the communist regimes imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II, Castro's revolution was a homegrown affair that quickly attracted the support of most Cubans...
...most Stalinist regime is more democratic and free than any capitalist country," says WWP's Doares in defense of the deposed and executed Nicolai Ceausescu of Romania. "What is dictatorship for one class is democracy for another class; what is democracy for the rich is dictatorship for the poor...
Until last year, Ceausescu's government considered AIDS a capitalist disease that hardly existed in Rumania. But the dictator had raised the odds that it would become a problem by outlawing birth control and sex education -- two mainstays of AIDS-prevention efforts elsewhere in the world -- in an attempt to boost his country's population. In January 1989, Dr. Ionel Patrascu, of Bucharest's Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, decided to test a handful of patients for the virus as part of a research project. Amazingly, the first child screened, a twelve-year-old girl, was infected...
...After Ceausescu's fall, Patrascu resumed testing with the help of Medecins du Monde. As he uncovered more and more cases, the doctor was puzzled by the unusual concentration of infections in children from one to three years old. Ordinarily, babies are exposed to the AIDS virus only through their mothers, but the mothers of these children were found to be free of infection...