Word: shapes
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Comparisons with 1789 and 1917 are not out of place. The old order in Rumania has passed, but the bloodshed is not over, and the shape of a new order is not yet discernible. Euphoria collides with the reality of post- Ceausescu life: unrelenting poverty, political confusion, ethnic tension. Rumanians may be jubilant, but they are also fearful of the uncharted world into which they have been pitched. Ceausescu is gone, but the real revolution is just beginning...
...country's future. Rumania has no history of democratic government and Ceausescu permitted no institutions to develop outside his control. The Communist Party, if it is not completely discredited in the eyes of the people, will have to enter negotiations with nascent political organizations, if they can take solid shape. With security men still fighting desperately to avert a reckoning with the nation they brutalized, the regular army will play a stabilizing role...