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...firms that are racing to Eastern Europe could take a lesson from the patience shown by Minneapolis-based Control Data, which since 1973 has built disk drives and other computer products in Romania (pop. 23 million). The joint venture with a Romanian company, which took five years to turn a profit, exports half its output to the West. "The biggest problem was the lack of the business environment that we in the West are used to," recalls Helmut Koller, Control Data's marketing director for Eastern Europe. "We basically had to create our own suppliers...
Ever since taking over from deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu last winter, Romanian leader Ion Iliescu has played down his Communist background and promised his countrymen a new democratic era. But actions speak louder than words. By setting club-wielding miners loose in Bucharest last week to crush antigovernment protests, Iliescu demonstrated that he was quite willing to rule by thuggery...
...Romanian leader's performance as a party boss was a brutal reminder that while the countries of Central Europe have removed Communists from positions of any real power, the Balkans remain dominated by an old order dressed up in new suits. That fact was reinforced last week when the Bulgarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communist Party, emerged victorious in the first free elections since...
LAST EXITS IN ROMANIA. The grainy videotape of last December's trial and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife never shows the couple actually being cut down by bullets. This gap is now suspected of hiding a grisly interlude. Quoting government sources in Bucharest, a French newspaper claims that Ceausescu was tortured to death following the tribunal, by Romanian soldiers who were trying to locate three briefcases containing numbers and access codes of the family's foreign bank accounts. After studying the photographic evidence, forensic experts at France's Carme Institute tentatively confirm this scenario. They note...
...triangle comprising southern Poland and northern Czechoslovakia, which is covered by a permanent cloud of emissions from factories and power plants, residents complain that the air is so bad that washed clothes turn dirty before they can dry on the line. For miles around the notorious Romanian "black town" of Copsa Mica, the trees and grass are so stained by soot that they look as if they have been soaked in ink. "Even horses can stay here for only a couple of years," says Dr. Alexandru Balin, who works in a local occupational-health clinic. "Then they have...