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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
...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...