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...tournament's biggest upset so far: the Irish victory over Italy, 1-0. The Yanks held their own, tying Switzerland 1-1. Other scores: Saturday, June 18 -- Romania 3, Colombia 1 . . . Sunday, June 19 -- Cameroon 2, Sweden 2 . . . Norway 1, Mexico 0 . . . Belgium 1, Morocco 0 . . . Monday, June 20--Brazil 2, Russia...
While America gave Rhinoceros its warmest reception anywhere, critics and audiences seemed to misunderstand it as light comedy. To Ionesco, it was a brutal metaphor for what happened in Romania under fascism and communism. In a journal dated "around 1940," he wrote, "The police are rhinoceroses. The judges are rhinoceroses. You are the only man among the rhinoceroses. The rhinoceroses wonder how the world could have been led by men. You yourself wonder: Is it true that the world was led by men?" The horror behind this question never left. Ionesco's jokes were those of nearly all the 20th...
...ordinary people thrown out of bars. But in Zhirinovsky's case, he was given the bum's rush from entire countries. Back in Russia at week's end, the nationalist demagogue was able to regale friends with how he was booted from Bulgaria, barred from Germany and booed in Romania without even paying a visit. In fact, he returned to Moscow only after it became clear that nobody else wanted him around...
...Tuesday, he had bulldozed his way to Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, arriving in sunglasses, a fisherman's hat and a white trenchcoat. There, the visiting Russian announced that neighboring Romania was, in his view, an artificial state created by Italian gypsies who seized territory from Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary. Outraged, the Romanian Foreign Minister summoned Russia's ambassador in Bucharest to protest "the most insulting statement ever made about Romania," no mean achievement. Turning his attention to his host country, Zhirinovsky went on to declare that Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgaria's first democratically elected President, should be replaced and that...
...died several weeks ago, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall declared himself the leader of 15 million Hungarians, pointedly extending his domain beyond the 10 million in the country. Antall, who was considered a moderate, is not alone. Many Hungarians want to protect their expatriate brothers currently enduring discrimination in Serbia, Romania and Ukraine. "If our reaching out to the West doesn't produce results in three or four years with something like NATO membership -- or its clear prospect -- the nationalists will roar back," says Istvan Gyarmati, Hungary's Director of Security Policy. "They'll just say we moderates tried a policy...