Word: romania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germany, William Toetoek, an ethnic German writer who immigrated from Romania, was interviewed on Bremen radio and quoted witnesses in Timisoara as saying 300 to 400 protesters were killed and hundreds injured...
VIENNA--The biggest protests in two years were reported in Romania, where Nicolae Ceausescu runs the Soviet bloc's last hard-line regime, and a traveler said yesterday at least two people were killed, including a child...
...Romania virtually sealed its borders, blocking or restricting travel from neighboring Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and from other countries, in an apparent effort to curtail reports of the unrest at Timisoara, in western Romania...
...Yugoslav returning from Romania told The Associated Press police fired on the protesters and at least two people were killed...
Emigres said Bucharest radio warned citizens on Sunday to remain orderly or face serious consequences, which in Romania can include long jail sentences or forced labor...