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These days the comparisons are far less flattering. At rallies, protesters chant "Ceausescu, Ceausescu!" Gamsakhurdia apparently takes seriously the reference to Romania's toppled, and summarily executed, dictator. For the past three weeks he has barricaded himself inside the Georgian parliament, where he is guarded by hundreds of National Guardsmen. When he ventures out, it is in one of two bulletproof Mercedes, for which Gamsakhurdia spent $460,000. But he bristles at being compared with the Romanian. "These people do not know what a dictator really is," he fumes, his dark eyes smoldering. "Could you really imagine such actions...
...demand for the return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for vengeance. Except for Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who underwent a televised trial and execution, relatively few former communist leaders have been prosecuted, and none executed...
...those who feel guilty about lying on a Mediterranean beach, there are other things to do. The British travel firm of Eco Holidays, for example, is offering a trip to assist in woodland preservation in Romania. But John Button, author of The Green Guide to England, may have the ultimate solution. The "truly aware," says he, will not go on holiday...
...sponsored by the University of Toronto, Project Liberty will consist of a series of workshops which will bring together public policy experts from the United States, Canada and Western Europe. These scholars and politicians will focus on Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, although program directors say they may consider Romania and Bulagaria at a later date...
...Romania dramatically restricted access to abortion--with staggering consequences for maternal and infant health. While neighboring countries saw maternal deaths due to abortions decline to less than 25 a year by 1978, such deaths rose to more than 450 per year in Romania as the backalley business took hold. Infant mortality rates jumped as well, over the short term as well as long term, and fetal death rates rose dramatically too. What started out as a drive to save babies wound up killing more than before...