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...October 1966 State Decree No. 770 was issued, in effect prohibiting abortion except under extraordinary circumstances. At the same time, import of oral contraceptives and IUDs was discontinued, and a package of other measures such as birth premiums and reduced taxes for couples with children was introduced. Rumania's mother heroines, as they have been called, responded vigorously. In September 1967 births totaled 63,183, more than triple the number from the previous December. The total number of births in 1967 was nearly twice that in 1966. Newspapers reported instances of three new mothers sharing a single hospital...
During the next few years, the birthrate gradually declined as women rediscovered other means of birth control. But the babies remained. From 1966 to 1976, Rumania produced nearly 40% more babies than might otherwise have been expected...
...result is a compressed baby boom -- one that interrupts charts of Rumania's age groups less like the metaphorical pig in a python of the U.S. baby boom but rather more like a giraffe in a python. In 1972 Rumania had twice as many children in kindergarten as the year before. In 1989 twice as many 22-year-olds were flooding into the labor force. But Ceausescu was unable to create jobs in the late 1980s as rapidly as mothers created babies in the late 1960s. Revolutions are carried on the backs of the young, and the sudden increase...
...Modrow's grip on power is slipping, the authority of Rumania's new government seems to be splintering completely. Two weeks ago, 1,000 demonstrators converged on the headquarters of the ruling National Salvation Front in Bucharest, screaming, "Death for Communists!" The Front, whose eleven-member ruling board is made up entirely of former party members, immediately outlawed the Communist Party...
...Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and Panama's loss in a couple of days is equivalent to America's during the entire Viet Nam War. Yet compare the American press's indifference to Panamanian deaths with its lavish emphasis on -- and, it seems, exaggeration of -- the death count in Rumania...