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- <text id=91TT2210>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:Romania
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- ROMANIA
- Miners and Mayhem
- </hdr><body>
- <p> How times change. In June 1990, 6,000 coal miners from
- western Romania rampaged through Bucharest at President Ion
- Iliescu's invitation to break up an antigovernment protest. Last
- week 7,000 miners from the same region again took to the streets
- of the capital. Their aim: to oust Prime Minister Petre Roman,
- whom they had supported just 15 months before.
- </p>
- <p> At the center of the protest was Roman's October 1990
- introduction of Western-style economic reforms, which have led
- to an inflation rate of 170%. Fed up with low pay and high
- prices, miners hijacked trains and descended on Bucharest. That
- night thousands of Bucharest residents joined miners, setting
- barricades on fire and smashing windows as police fought back
- with tear gas. The next day Roman resigned, defusing the crisis.
- But many miners were still furious, saying they would not be
- satisfied until Iliescu himself is gone.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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