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Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...
...lack of central control was an obvious problem last week. Under Ceausescu's paranoid purges and the vigilance of his secret police, no significant resistance movement was able to form. The explosion that ended his reign resulted from spontaneous combustion, and the people who powered it were only beginning to get organized. Nobody had a plan for the revolution; the participants only knew what they were against. Said Iliescu: "It was not the movement that led to the overthrow, but the overthrow that created the movement...
...feminist outlook to anchor her reign...
Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...
...listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where the New Kids reign...