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...Paris to catcalls, and a performance of his The Lesson ended with the lead actor bolting out ahead of angry spectators. But seven years later, a Paris theater produced a double bill of the two plays; they are still running today after nearly 12,000 performances. By 1970 the Romanian-born Ionesco had been elected to the pantheon of tradition, the Academie Francaise. His death at 84 was announced last week by France's Ministry of Culture rather than by his wife of 58 years, Rodica, or their daughter...
...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 if it were...
...only to work and improve their life claim falsely to be refugees and ask for political asylum. Last year 700,000 of them applied to West European countries for asylum -- 438,000 in Germany alone. "I risked my life to get here," says Anton Lupu, a 33-year-old Romanian painter who made it across the border from Poland and has applied for asylum in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany. "We didn't come to steal, only to work respectably. The difference between Germany and Romania is the difference between heaven and earth...
...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...
...favored by many Americans -- simply passed along to friends. None of these options sufficed, however, when 420 tons of German pesticides were "given" to Romania by a waste-disposal contractor who said the cargo was part of an aid package. In fact, the toxic mess was dumped in the Romanian town of Sibiu. Embarrassed, the German government will begin shipping the chemicals back this week...