Word: petar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier after 35 years in power, be put on trial. Although the unthinkable has become a daily happening in Eastern Europe, there was still something astonishing in the sight of street demonstrations in this quiescent land. The marches even had the blessing of the week-old reformist government of Petar Mladenov, 53, which has been moving rapidly to harness the country's desire for change. For the first time ever, Bulgarians watched live television coverage of their National Assembly -- and listened to vicious denunciations of Zhivkov. After installing Mladenov as head of state, the legislature revoked the law that made...
...abandon orthodox Communism for some as-yet-nebulous form of social democracy. The next to be engulfed by the tides of change appears to be Bulgaria; Todor Zhivkov, 78, its longtime, hard-line boss, unexpectedly resigned at week's end. Outlining the urgent need for "restructuring," his successor, Petar Mladenov, said, "This implies complex and far from foreseeable processes. But there is no alternative." In all of what used to be called the Soviet bloc, Zhivkov's departure leaves in power only Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania and Milos Jakes in Czechoslovakia, both old-style Communist dictators. Their fate? Who knows...
...member National Assembly voted unanimously by a show of hands to oust Zhivkov and to replace him with Petar Mladenov, who took over from Zhivkov as party chief last week. Deputies praised Mladenov for his "enthusiasm" for perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program...
...Soviets have also launched a "peace offensive," aimed specifically at driving a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov called for a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact "conference on military detente and disarmament in Europe." If NATO's approval last December of a U.S. proposal to deploy new medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe could only be canceled, said the two Communist Foreign Ministers, then talks could begin on reducing a comparable Soviet missile force...