Word: sibiu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...from bronchial asthma, and adults struggle with lead poisoning. Suau's stark photographs are but one glimpse of the anguished land left behind by Nicolae Ceausescu, who put Copsa Mica (pop. 6,000) into industrial overdrive. Situated 150 miles northwest of Bucharest, the town is in the county of Sibiu, which was once governed by the late dictator's son Nicu. Likely to go on trial within the next few months, Nicu could receive life imprisonment if convicted. A more appropriate punishment might be to sentence him to spend the rest of his days in Copsa Mica...
...offices. By the time he was executed, many of them, including his two sons, his daughter, his sister and two of his brothers, had been arrested and would probably be put on trial. Ceausescu's son Nicu, who directed security troops in a bloody battle in the city of Sibiu, was expected to be executed. A brother, Marin Ceausescu, 74, was found hanged in the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, where he had headed the trade delegation and was widely believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae allegedly transferred millions of dollars into Swiss bank accounts. The provisional government...
...jumping, riding on tanks. "The army is with us!" they shouted. "We are the people!" Crowds stormed Ceausescu's palace and rushed to the state television studio to put out the message "We won. The dictator has fallen." Ceausescu's son Nicu, party chief in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (pop. 173,000), was captured and paraded before the cameras. His face was bruised, and his eyes flicked in terror from side to side, as if seeking a way to escape...
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