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...seventh blockbuster, Sidney Sheldon has a great time inventing grisly ways of killing his characters. A Rumanian rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked...
...with notification of the award by a telephone call at 5 a.m. in the Manhattan apartment where he lives with his wife and 14- year-old son. It was the morning after Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holiday, and Wiesel, 58, lapsed into memories of his childhood in the Rumanian town of Sighet. "I was still in the mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted by the clamor of journalists...
...trade status of most-favored nation to Rumania for the eleventh straight year, after Bucharest agreed to allow more than 1,000 people to emigrate. The regime will thus be able to continue exporting to the U.S. without paying extra duties. Reagan granted the extension despite misgivings about alleged Rumanian human rights abuses, which range from torture and long-term political imprisonment to religious persecution...
Elena is believed to be behind many oppressive government decisions. Father Gheorghe Calciu, 61, a Rumanian Orthodox priest who was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. last year after 21 years in Rumanian prisons, contends that the First Lady has launched a determined campaign against religion. Father Calciu says more than 60 Orthodox churches have been demolished since 1977 as part of a drive to renovate urban centers by replacing architectural treasures and other traditional structures with monumental government buildings. Many Baptist churches and several Jewish synagogues have been razed...
...recent months Elena has played an increasingly active role in meetings with foreign leaders. When the First Couple visited Belgrade last December, Yugoslav journalists noted that Elena figured prominently in official discussions. The Rumanian press highlighted her role in the talks...