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Disgruntled Serbs may have other ideas. By bringing the Balkan wars to Belgrade, Milosevic and his wife Mira Markovic may have pushed their people too far. In their hearts, many Serbs secretly hope Milosevic will go the way of his brutal Romanian neighbor, Nicolae Ceausescu, who was overthrown and executed in 1989. For many in the Balkans, that ending is the only happy one for this miserable fairy tale gone...
DIED. NICU CEAUSESCU, 45, playboy son of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu; following surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by liver disease; in Vienna...
...violence, says, "A sense of enormous theological and personal desperation within the settlers, greatly intensified by Arab terrorism, finally produced an image of a monster in Rabin." Netanyahu himself did not help matters when he compared Rabin's Labor Party tactics to those of the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. According to Gadi Wolfsfeld, a lecturer in political science at Hebrew University, all the vicious talk may have inspired Rabin's assassination. "The hysterical language that what Rabin was doing was an act of treachery made someone think they would be a hero if he could stop the peace process...
...unaccustomed to danger. He has covered the wars in Eritrea and Afghanistan and was part of a group of journalists detained and then released by the Iraqi military in the aftermath of the Gulf War. In addition, he was among the first journalists to enter Romania after dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's fall and execution. His first book, a joint project with TIME senior writer Lance Morrow, to be published later this year, is eyewitness to the democratic upheavals in the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, eastern Germany and elsewhere...
...Europe is openly advocating a return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...