Word: petar
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...Olympics reflect issues, yes, but they also offer a refuge from them, a way for symbols to become people again, and for struggles to be replaced by no-lose propositions. After playing against the Dream Team, Croatian coach Petar Skansi was smiling like a champion. Not just because he had come within 33 points of tying the U.S. Not only because, briefly, he had been able to ignore the bloodshed in his homeland. But mostly, he said, because "I was impressed with the way Mr. Jordan and Mr. Daly pronounced our names. They know about us. That is very important...
...another. Donn Nelson, a coach with the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors, who is assisting the Lithuanian team, says, "There are two totally different events. When the U.S. plays, it is more of an entertainment. When the other teams play, it is very exciting. Anybody can win." Petar Skansi, the thoughtful coach of the Croatian team, has a slightly different perspective. "No one wants to beat the Dream Team," he says. "It would be bad for the sport because they are clearly the best. Maybe someone will beat them in 15 or 20 years...
...they won more than half the seats in the 400-member parliament in June's elections, Bulgaria's former Communist leaders have been struggling to keep a grip on power and hold their newly renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party together. The internal crisis was triggered early last month when President Petar Mladenov, who deposed longtime Stalinist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989, stepped down under pressure. Mladenov had angered opposition groups and liberal members of his party by suggesting that tanks be used to break up a pro-democracy demonstration last December...
Despite their different ways of handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...
...holdover Communist regime of Premier Georgi Atanasov resigned, and party chief Petar Mladenov, who had unsuccessfully called upon the opposition to join a "government of national consensus," was replaced by reformer Alexander Lilov. Todor Zhivkov, 78, in jail facing charges of misappropriation of state property and abuse of power, was hospitalized with "certain old-age ailments...