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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...
...Africa (1985). Sydney Pollack's romantic adventure movie showed that Hollywood could still make 'em like it used to, with as much power and more subtlety. Meryl Streep had her most popular role as author Isak Dinesen, her restless heart liberated by the untamed beauty of Kenya...
...banking). He regarded that as "getting the Government off people's backs," and it involved not just a reduction in official regulations but also a relaxation in law enforcement ranging from antitrust to safety regulations. That may have been beneficial, but it enabled lots of sharp characters to make lots of money in lots of sharp ways. The most extreme example is the savings and loan scandal, which features fraud, bribery, favoritism and freewheeling incompetence. Some 800 of the 2,600 remaining S&Ls are now insolvent or nearly so, and the bailout will ultimately cost the taxpayers at least...
...kind of Soviet Union. He is only the third non-American to have been so designated more than once. One was Churchill, who was also Man of the Year for 1940. The other two were, like Gorbachev, communists: Stalin and China's Deng Xiaoping (1978 and 1985). Will Gorbachev make it again? Stay with us as we embark on a new decade that promises to be anything but dull...