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...slightly oddball but deadly serious. The power of the powerless is shaking Eastern Europe again as tens of thousands of Bulgarians fill the streets of Sofia each day to show just how fed up they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria: Call it the Belgrade method. Mired in an economic crisis, Bulgarians want change at the top, and they want it now. After daily protests by students and workers reached 100,000 people on Sunday in Sofia alone, the government agreed to meet with opposition leaders. The two sides will discuss holding early elections to replace an unpopular Parliament well before the scheduled 1998 elections. The demonstrations started last week when the Socialist Party insisted it would name a new premier without going to the polls. Socialist Premier Zhan Videnov resigned in late December, amid mounting criticism...
ASSASSINATED. ANDREI LUKANOV, 58, Bulgaria's first post-communist socialist Prime Minister and a critic of the current economically and politically embattled socialist-led government; by an unknown gunman or gunmen; outside his home in Sofia...
Such was daily life for Sofia I. Echegaray '97-'98, who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a muscular disease which afflicts one's wrists and renders even the most basic acts painful...
...Because we've only lived in a university setting, this is all we know," she says. "I think it's making [Sofia] very social...