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SOFIA, Bulgaria: In Sofia, the cry was "Victory!" When President Petar Stoyanov emerged from a four-hour meeting to announce that the Socialists had agreed to step down and allow new elections in April, he was hoisted on the shoulders of supporters, and Bulgarians ended 30 days of protests to erupt in celebration. Bulgaria's next Prime Minister, says TIME's Massimo Calabresi, will almost certainly be opposition leader Ivan Kostov of the United Democratic Forces. But what relief his term will bring is uncertain. "Kostov is a former finance minister with the UDF," Calabresi noted, "and at the time...
SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarians are finding out that democracy can be an unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered...
...party forced Videnov to resign the prime ministership last November, and to replace him the Socialists have designated the unpopular Nikolai Dobrev, the hard-line Interior Minister. But the new, anticommunist President of Bulgaria, Petar Stoyanov, who was sworn in this week to the mostly ceremonial post, is insisting the Socialists get together with the opposition Union of Democratic Forces on a reform program and a date for early parliamentary elections. The Socialists had been holding out for the official close of their term at the end of 1998, but last week they grudgingly proposed going to the polls...
...without going to the polls. Socialist Premier Zhan Videnov resigned in late December, amid mounting criticism for his failure to resurrect Bulgaria's economy. Last year's inflation was 310 percent, unemployment is 14 percent and the average monthly wage has plummeted to $20. Bulgarians chose an anti-Communist, Petar Stoyanov, as the new president. He takes office Jan. 22, but in Bulgaria, the real power rests in Parliament. And Bulgarians want the Socialists out. But even as cheers of "Victory!" and "Elections!" rang out in the crowd, Georgi Parvanov, the leader of the Socialist Party, made it clear Sunday...
...send the censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director Shekhar Kapur says are political reasons: the upper-class guardians of public morality who once defamed this low-caste rebel are now ensuring that "Bandit Queen" remains an untouchable.Photographs:Markey: Terry Ashe for TIMESerbs: Petar Kujundzic/REUTERSTokyo: Masaharu Hatano/REUTERSHiroshima: U.S. Army Signal CorpsU.N.: Mark Cardwell/Reuters