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...question of vengeance." But, he added, "we hope gradually to weed out all the top officials who supported Ceausescu." That kind of compromise made many newly liberated Rumanians uneasy about a potential alliance between the army and the bureaucracy -- and a possible new dictatorship in the making. Said Doina Cornea, a longtime dissident and a founder of the National Christian Peasant Party: "We don't need central control anymore...
...advice is practical, not anything undefined or vague." said Doina Contescu '89, a resident of Wigglesworth Hall...
...disproportionate number of the dead were members of the literary and professional elite of Bucharest-the "Paris of eastern Europe," which in Aikman's words "now resembles the movie set of Earthquake." Poetess Veronica Porumbacu, popular Writer Alexandru Ivasiuc, Singer Doina Badea-all had perished, along with a host of privileged bureaucrats, scientists and educators who could afford fashionable apartments in the 32 tall buildings flattened in the heart of the city. At the city morgue hundreds of bodies lay in plastic sacks for long lines of friends and relatives to try to identify. "Is Caragiu there?" asked...