Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...climax of 17th century Spain's greatest tragedy, as oppressed villagers hack to shreds their tyrannical overlord, trashing his palace and slaughtering his bullyboy guards, the playgoer's mind leaps to Nicolae Ceausescu's Bucharest, to Samuel Doe's Monrovia and to far too many other gruesome places arraigned in current headlines. Although Lope de Vega's play was written around 1612 and was based on an actual occurrence in 1476, the abuses of power it depicts remain painfully close to our times...
...SENT these letters to almost every country in the world, regardless of their position in the Cold War. Radio Bucharest and Radio Moscow got the same letter as Radio Paraguay did. Most stations replied politely with the standard QSL card. But little did I know that our worst enemies in the Cold War would turn out to be a shortwave listener's best friend...
Iliescu's National Salvation Front also prevailed in elections last month, collecting an astonishing 85% of the vote. But even the magnitude of the win did not silence a minority that believes last December's revolution was hijacked by onetime Communists. Every day hundreds of protesters gathered in Bucharest's University Square, occasionally chanting, "The final solution is another revolution...
...Just before dawn on Wednesday, more than 1,000 riot police poured into the square, setting fire to the tents of hunger strikers and beating 100 dissidents. Within hours thousands of protesters armed with clubs and petrol bombs were battling police throughout the city. As black smoke rose over Bucharest, Iliescu appeared on television to appeal for support against "a fascist rebellion...
Despite their different ways of 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...