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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tokes ran afoul of authorities last August in an outspoken interview with Hungarian television. Among other things, he attacked Bucharest's plan to raze up to 8,000 villages and resettle their residents in high-rise apartment complexes. Some 50,000 ethnic Hungarians would be relocated in the program, which has brought denunciations from international human rights groups and strained relations with the Budapest government...
...victory marked an extraordinarily quick rise by Collor, scion of a wealthy political and publishing family in Alagoas. His father Arnon de Mello, a federal Senator, earned a bizarre niche in Brazilian history in 1963 when he shot a fellow legislator to death on the Senate floor. The elder Collor served several months in jail before it was decided that he had acted in self- defense...
...country's new political leadership is likely to rise from ad hoc coalitions of intellectuals, students and workers similar to the Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia and the New Forum in East Germany. In Bucharest a group called the Front for National Salvation announced that it was assuming power. The organization is headed by Corneliu Manescu, a former Foreign Minister, who said he would act as President until free elections are held in the spring. Once a confidant of Ceausescu's, Manescu, 73, had a falling-out with the President during the 1970s, and has been banished to an apartment outside...
...repay his $10 billion foreign debt, he halted imports, exported food, rationed electricity and impoverished the population. He wasted scarce investment funds on giant party office buildings and decided to bulldoze thousands of villages and force farmers into high-rise apartment buildings. His go-it-alone stubbornness in foreign policy was only one more sign of his determination to depend on no power but his own. As it turned out, that was not enough...
...better educated than his predecessors. A graduate of the law faculty of Moscow State University, he is the first Soviet party leader since Lenin to have earned a university degree. He is experienced in weighing evidence and reassessing what Marxists call -- but often do not respect -- "objective reality." His rise in the party began long after Stalin's death, so he is less afflicted than his elders by xenophobia and acceptance of terror as a civic norm. His abilities were recognized by KGB chief Yuri Andropov, who offered him counsel and support. Andropov had been a Central Committee Secretary...