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...more I learn about volunteering in the United States, the more I think about my own country of Romania, and about the need to revive a volunteering spirit in the hearts and minds of Romanians. The moral value of voluntarism slowly died during the 45 years of the cruelly utopian Communist ideology. Today, when the transition to an open-market economy moves the Romanian society toward a composition of money-oriented and self-centered individuals, volunteerism is a necessity...
Seven years ago Romania rose into anger to irreversibly turn a dark page of its history. Just three days before the Christmas of 1989, during the violent days of the Romanian Revolution, a taste of freedom filled the heart of the people. It revived memories in the elderly who experienced democracy before the war. It gave an ecstatic feeling to intellectuals who had heard about the world beyond the Iron Curtain. And it baffled the minds of those who were too young to understand why the only world they knew was changing...
DIED. NICU CEAUSESCU, 45, playboy son of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu; following surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by liver disease; in Vienna...
...medal in Barcelona, the program was plagued by controversy. The coaches were fractious, the girls looked unhappy and undernourished, and criticism began to emerge that the program drove adolescent girls too hard in service of demanding parents and coaches. Much of the criticism was aimed at Karolyi, the former Romanian coach who brought the world Nadia Comaneci and later trained such U.S. stars as Mary Lou Retton and Kim Zmeskal...
While it lacks the experience of its Italian, Russian or Romanian counterparts, the U.S. women's foil team is ranked No. 3 in the world. Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian, could repeat his 1984 medal-winning performance in sabre...