From: mihai@sep.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Mihai Popovici)
Subject: Romanian News  
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:32:47 GMT

I have some more Romanian news from Mihai Sirbu who temporarily is
not able to post them himself.

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From: msirbu@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu
Subject: Moldova/Romania News, RFE/RL 9/1/92
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 13:14:42 CDT

RFE/RL Daily Report     No. 167, September 1, 1992

                   SUCCESSOR STATES TO THE USSR

[...]
LEBED AGAIN CAUTIONED AGAINST POLITICAL STATEMENTS.  Russia's
Defense Minister, General Pavel Grachev, told Izvestiia of 1
September that he has "issued additional written instructions to
General Lebed," the commander of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova, on
"the impermissibility of [making] political statements." Grachev's
announcement followed complaints by Moldova's ambassador to
Russia, Petru Lucinschi, to Grachev about Lebed's recent public
statements terming the Moldovan government "fascist" and
"criminal" and pledging continued Russian assistance, including
military aid, to the "Dniester republic." Lucinschi told Grachev
that such statements undermine Yeltsin's policy, contravene CIS
commitments, fuel Moldovan suspicions of Russia, and cause "an
explosive situation" in Moldova, Izvestia reported. Lebed had been
instructed to refrain from political statements in early July
following his first series of statements, but he continued to make
them afterward. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

                    CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

[...]
ILIESCU LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN.  On 31 August Romanian president Ion
Iliescu opened his campaign for reelection. He made a general
statement on Radio Bucharest and answered questions from
listeners, telling Romanians that his policies helped "demolish
the communist totalitarian system" in the country as well as avert
"chaos and anarchy" during the transition to democracy and a
market economy.  A high-ranking communist party functionary under
Ceausescu until 1971, Iliescu is backed by the Democratic National
Salvation Front, which broke away from the National Salvation
Front in April. (Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.)

[...]
STOLOJAN DEFENDS SUBSIDY CUTS; UNIONS CALL PROTESTS.  In an
interview broadcast by Radio Bucharest on 31 August Romanian prime
minister Theodor Stolojan again defended his cabinet's decision to
go ahead with subsidy cuts planned for 1 September.  Stolojan, who
admitted that the move was likely to have a negative impact on the
forthcoming elections, insisted that Romania cannot "afford the
luxury of linking its economic reforms to the electoral cycle."
The new round of subsidy cuts--the second this year--is expected
to lead to a substantial increase in prices for staples, services,
and energy.  Romania's main trade union organizations called for
rallies on 11 September to protest sinking living standards. (Dan
Ionescu, RFE/RL Inc.)


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