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...impact very much resembles that of a terrorist attack.' PETAR DIMITROV, Bulgarian Energy Minister, on the effect of Russia's decision to temporarily cut off gas supplies to his country...
...want to convert his mausoleum into a McDonald's rather than try to knock it down. As Russia debates what to do with the bones of its first communist leader, his Bulgarian counterpart on Saturday got the last laugh on the country?s post-communist authorities. Georgi Dimitrov?s body was cremated shortly after the collapse of communism in 1990, but following a fierce national debate, the present government decided to finish the job by destroying his mausoleum in downtown Sofia. So with the city center sealed off and tens of thousands of Bulgarians gathered to mark a symbolic occasion...
...Displaying the sort of gritty determination that had won international fame for Dimitrov himself in 1933 - when he?d faced down Nazi prosecutors after being falsely accused of burning down the German parliament - the government?s demolition team scheduled a third attempt on Sunday evening, this time using 600 pounds of Ammonite, a more potent explosive. But, as if to prove that Bulgarians never tire of hearing a joke repeated, it failed, too. Now the authorities plan to do the job with bulldozers. Better keep those hard hats on, boys...
Byrd won a one-sided decision over AlgerianAhmed Dine; De La Hoya overcame some shaky scoringto defeat Bulgaria's Dimitrov Tontchev...
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...