Word: iliescu
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...former Soviet republics or the onetime satellite states of Eastern Europe is openly advocating a return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...
...Romania several extreme nationalist parties blame ethnic minorities ( -- Hungarians, Jews and gypsies -- for the country's severe economic troubles. Though these parties do not yet exercise any real power, President Ion Iliescu has felt obliged to court their support...
...times change. In June 1990, 6,000 coal miners from western Romania rampaged through Bucharest at President Ion Iliescu's invitation to break up an antigovernment protest. Last week 7,000 miners from the same region again took to the streets of the capital. Their aim: to oust Prime Minister Petre Roman, whom they had supported just 15 months before...
...hijacked trains and descended on Bucharest. That night thousands of Bucharest residents joined miners, setting barricades on fire and smashing windows as police fought back with tear gas. The next day Roman resigned, defusing the crisis. But many miners were still furious, saying they would not be satisfied until Iliescu himself is gone...
...exodus of members, it thrives in several 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...