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...member parliament in June's elections, Bulgaria's former Communist leaders have been struggling to keep a grip on power and hold their newly renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party together. The internal crisis was triggered early last month when President Petar Mladenov, who deposed longtime Stalinist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989, stepped down under pressure. Mladenov had angered opposition groups and liberal members of his party by suggesting that tanks be used to break up a pro-democracy demonstration last December...
...fate of Dimitrov's corpse had been hotly debated since the downfall of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November. The cremation was carried out against the wishes of some party members and unbeknown to demonstrators camped outside the mausoleum to protest the homage paid to a leader some reviled as a Stalinist. Their posters depicted a sphinx above slogans reading, WE DON'T NEED ANY PHARAOHS and IT STINKS...
...handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...
...holdover Communist regime of Premier Georgi Atanasov resigned, and party chief Petar Mladenov, who had unsuccessfully called upon the opposition to join a "government of national consensus," was replaced by reformer Alexander Lilov. Todor Zhivkov, 78, in jail facing charges of misappropriation of state property and abuse of power, was hospitalized with "certain old-age ailments...
...Bulgarian turmoil is a classic of ethnic politics. Zhivkov tried to solve the minority problem by denying the Turks a separate existence and forcing them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...