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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesROMANIAIs the Past Prologue?
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- Hope for the future is fading among many Romanians, only
- four months after the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
- Last week crowds of up to 4,000 opponents of the National
- Salvation Front, the transitional government that took power
- after Ceausescu's hurried execution, protested in Bucharest
- against interim President Ion Iliescu, whom they accuse of still
- sympathizing with communism. Romanian newspapers and witnesses
- reported that police beat some of the demonstrators, a charge
- denied by the government.
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- The demonstrators believe the Front holds an unfair
- advantage in parliamentary elections slated for May 20. Some
- charge that the Front may attempt to rig the balloting. Critics
- say almost 90% of the group's members are former Communists.
- Iliescu's vow that a "return to the past is impossible" has
- failed to reassure his detractors. Says Sergiu Cunescu, chairman
- of the center-right Social Democratic Party: "People live in
- fear."
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