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Certainly demonstrations and mass events have an honored role in history. Sheer, chanting force of numbers has served notice to dictators from Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania that their time was up. Back in 1970, activists capitalized on an outpouring of environmental sentiment during the first Earth Day to unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could...
...fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live. Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest hostilities...
...bring notable, talented people here [from Romania]," said RSH President Horiade Gavrilitza, who mentioned playwright Eugene Ionesco as a possible participant in the future...
Nastase is very conscious of the political changes in his homeland and wants to do as much as he can to help. The colorful former Wimbledon finalist flew to Romania last December to support his countrymen during their revolution for democratic change...
...fundamentalists," "militants," "extremists," "insurgents" and "rebels." A leading American newspaper calls the Popular Front's supporters part of a "defiant and sullen populace," and likens the Popular Front itself to a "religious cult" (New York Times, January 25, 1990). On the other hand, when there was violent protest in Romania, the American media applauded it. The execution of the "tyrant" Ceaucescu was cause for celebration. There is an amazing absence of outrage in the media against our own use of violence to "liberate" the Panamanians...