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...allow them more room to maneuver, say analysts. The Poles, for example, are offering 12,000 hectares of firing ground about 50 km from the German border that includes a specialized urban-warfare training facility complete with underground passages, a railway station and a bank. The Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea, already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments. "We want to do things in a highly expeditionary...
WORLD BRIEFING A4 A movie IPO; Romanian cable-TV moguls; the Vespa's return; and more...
...next year's launch of a 24-hr. news network and a movie channel. But they must survive a marketplace that has been flooded with local and foreign stations since the fall of communism. Romania's 3.3 million cable subscribers are split among 260 cable companies, according to the Romanian Cable Communication Association. That can't last long, says Radu Petric, the group's president: "I foresee a struggle for survival in the coming years...
Vasile Gliga has come a long way since his first, illicit foray into business. While employed by Reghin's state-owned violin factory in the 1980s, he secretly made an instrument for himself at home. In 1990, following the Romanian revolution, he sold it to a dealer in the West. The $2,000 price, an undreamed-of fortune, not only bought him a secondhand auto, it also prompted a decision. Frustrated by what he calls the "old-style communist-worker mentality" ingrained in his factory colleagues, he quit his job, calculating that he and his wife, working from home, could...
...screens in 10 locations around Paris playing everything from Swiss documentaries to The Hulk, MK2 has fans among cinephiles and general moviegoers alike. Founder Marin Karmitz, 64, started his first cinema in 1974, near the Bastille. "I felt the time had come to approach cinema differently," says the Romanian émigré. "Opening that first theater was a reaction to the existing run-down art-house scene, a way to bring films in their original languages to Paris neighborhoods." Today, an average of 82,000 Parisians visit an MK2 outlet each week. MK2 also produces and distributes films, championing filmmakers...