Word: cluj
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listen to good jazz in Warsaw, take in a performance at what is possibly the best puppet theater in the world in Prague, and go to an opera in Budapest for about what it would cost for an intermission drink anywhere in the West. In Cluj, the capital of the medieval kingdom of Transylvania in Romania, three decades of Ceausescu misrule have emptied shops and condemned people to a dreary life in ill-lighted, poorly heated apartments. But the Ceausescu era did not kill the arts. At a recent Rachmaninoff concert performed by the Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist...
...Poland and pottery and glassware stores in Czechoslovakia. The Hungarian state record company presses high-quality classical records that can be bought for about half of what they would cost in the West. Hungarian wine is also worth the money, as is Bulgarian. In the villages west of Cluj, delicately embroidered tablecloths are sold for the equivalent of a few dollars...
...Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. All are in favor of a market economy and pluralism, while differing mainly on the pace and scope of reforms. "We would break with the past more quickly than the Front," says Mircea Vaida, a top official of the Liberal Party in Cluj. Agrees the Front's Badau Wittenbergen: "We want reforms but with proper guarantees against unemployment. It is not possible for us simply to copy Western ways...