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...economy in the hands of the state. While inflation soared and wages plummeted, corrupt officials stripped the country of its assets, turning the rest of Bulgaria's 8.4 million people into some of the poorest in Europe. Bulgarians have had enough and are demanding that Parliament resign and call new elections...
...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...
...down. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, for example, slipped into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make L.B.J., strictly speaking, a second-termer (his "first term" was the unexpired part of John Kennedy's), but the evil eye fell on him nonetheless...
...interview with The Crimson after he announced his intention to resign, Reich said he would move back to Cambridge this month to spend more time with his wife and two sons...
...bout with pneumonia and may be back at the Kremlin full-time within four weeks. But by the time that happens, Yeltsin may have, politically, a terminal case of the Lebeds. Last week, the former security chief and presidential candidate called Yeltsin an "old, sick man" who should resign for the good of Russia. Sunday, Lebed was talking about new elections that would take place, presumably, well before Yeltsin's term ends in 2000. "I want to become president and I will," Lebed said. "I'm ready for the election." Lebed has his own political party and boasted Sunday that...