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...cause aroused Tokes's wrath more than the plight of his fellow 1.7 million ethnic Hungarians, who make up 8% of the Rumanian population and are concentrated in Transylvania, the country's westernmost region. Long a center of ethnic turbulence, Transylvania passed from Hungary to Rumania in 1918, after World War I. The region reverted to Hungary in 1940, and was ceded back to Rumania in 1944. Ethnic Hungarian leaders charge Bucharest with attempting "cultural genocide" by shutting ethnic schools, dissolving Hungarian communities and seizing historical archives. Some 18,000 ethnic Hungarians fled Rumania last year...
...must weep for joy that it happened so quickly and simply. And I must weep for wrath that it took so abysmally long...
...effort to limit nuclear testing and encourage multilateral disarmament, for which he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. But he was best known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It was in this role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money...
...season has proven how talented the Crimson is. The November match against Navy was a no-contest, with Harvard winning, 9-0. The wrath of the deep and strong had no mercy on Franklin & Marshall, which fell, 9-0. Proving that the nine lives of the squash team were just as merciless on the road, the team went on to shut out Trinity with no problem. It was only at Cornell that the Crimson caught a glimpse of mortality. Although Harvard won the match, it lost only two games...
...come again soon. Reunification is a euphemism for East Germany's voluntary annexation by West Germany. If the G.D.R. merges with the Federal Republic, the Soviet Union could see an ally not only leave the Warsaw Pact but defect to NATO. Estimates on how long Gorbachev would survive the wrath of his comrades range from 20 minutes to 48 hours...