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...story going around Kinshasa is that one night late last December, Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko was entertaining a roomful of dinner guests when the television broadcast news of Nicolae Ceausescu's precipitate execution in Bucharest. Mobutu had long counted as a friend the Romanian autarch, who came to power in 1965, as he did. At the sight of that familiar face wreathed in blood, Mobutu abruptly left the room, abandoning his visitors without a word...
Hope for the future is fading among many Romanians, only four months after the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Last week crowds of up to 4,000 opponents of the National Salvation Front, the transitional government that took power after Ceausescu's hurried execution, protested in Bucharest against interim President Ion Iliescu, whom they accuse of still sympathizing with communism. Romanian newspapers and witnesses reported that police beat some of the demonstrators, a charge denied by the government...
Failing economies and a lack of hard currency are the biggest obstacles to educational reform in the East bloc. In Poland poor working conditions and low pay have led to a shortage of 100,000 teachers. Romanian educators are appealing to the West for typewriters, copying machines, computers, calculators and books. They are also seeking funds to rebuild the Bucharest University library, which was badly damaged during last winter's revolution...
...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...
...proceeds from the exhibition match went to the Harvard women's tennis team and the Romanian Society of Harvard (RSH). The tennis team will use its share to help fund its spring trip to California, while RSH plans to buy textbooks it will send to Romanian schools...