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...might have been delivered as fittingly in Warsaw, Budapest, East Berlin, Bucharest or Sofia. For while the changing of the calendar rarely signifies the change of much else, the advent of 1990 throughout Eastern Europe gave the sense that a corner had been turned, that the time for the celebration of a revolution was passing and the time for the painful work of political, economic and moral reconstruction had begun...
...Warsaw the new year brought the implementation of an unprecedented plan to transform the Polish economy into a capitalist one. The cold turkey blueprint is well drafted, but initially it is likely to accelerate the nation's hyperinflation and cause serious unemployment and widespread bankruptcies. In Sofia the communist government held its first set of talks with opposition leaders. But already the new government was faced with another challenge: a countrywide general strike and mass protests against the restoration of religious and cultural freedom to the country's minority Turks. Havel's government set out on a course of economic...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria--An outbreak of Slavic nationalist protest against the Turkish minority appears to be an attempt by Communist hard-liners to preserve their power in Bulgaria, an opposition leader said yesterday...
...bitter hostility between Slavs and ethnic Turks is deeply ingrained and ready to flare up at the slightest provocation. A few dozen anti-Turk demonstrators gathered again yesterday around the National Assembly, or parliament, in Sofia...
...change was transforming the world. Except in China, where troops mowed down students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square last spring, nation after nation saw crowds peacefully marching in the streets, and governments peacefully, if grudgingly, giving way. We want freedom!, the crowds chanted in Warsaw, Budapest, East Berlin, Sofia, Prague. One by one, the rejected leaders of the former Soviet satellites, abandoned by Moscow, promised free elections -- and more or less faded into oblivion. The Berlin Wall came tumbling down; the cold war ended. And only last week history was further rewritten when Czechoslovakia's onetime reformer Alexander Dubcek...