From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Romania/Moldova News from RFE/RL, 11 Jan 1993
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:31:15 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report               No. 5, January 11, 1993

ROMANIAS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT. The
centrist Democratic Convention, which groups the main
opposition forces, launched a harsh attack on the cabinet of
Nicolae Vacaroiu. The government is dominated by the leftist
Democratic National Salvation Front (DNSF), the party which
backed President Ion Iliescu in the September 1992
elections. In a statement broadcast by Radio Bucharest on 10
January, the DC said the cabinet lacks a serious ruling
program for the short and the long run, and accused it of
trying to pack the administration with its own political
clients. It also charged the DNSF and Iliescu with
deliberately trying to slow down reforms. In view of the
current crisis, the DC suggests that the cabinet should
implement the conventions own emergency program.  Dan
Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

ROMANIA ENFORCES TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS. Stringent restrictions
for travelers from all former Soviet republics except
Moldova went into effect on 10 January. Future visitors from
CIS countries and Georgia will need a notarized invitation
from a Romanian guaranteeing room and board. In addition,
visitors from these countries will need to prove at border
points that they have the equivalent of $40 for each day
they intend to stay in Romania. The restrictions are meant
to stop a possible mass influx of visitors from the former
USSR as a result of the elimination of exit visa
requirements in all CIS states.  Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT ROMANIA. Roland Dumas will
visit Romania on 11 and 12 January. He is expected to meet
President Ion Iliescu, Prime Minister Nicolae Vacaroiu, and
Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu. Romanian TV reports that
discussions will likely focus on bilateral ties and the
situation in former Yugoslavia. Iliescu made a one-day visit
to France last November.  Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

LEBED FAVORS MILITARY ACTION TO RESTORE ORDER. Interviewed
in Rossiiskaya gazeta of 6 January, Lt. Gen. Aleksandr
Lebed, commander of Russias 14th Army in Moldova, denounced
what he portrayed as governmental mismanagement, corruption,
and "the merger of state and mafia structures in both Russia
and the "Dniester republic, and urged that compromised
officials "resolutely be removed from their posts. He
concluded, "it is precisely the army which must fight the
mafia structures. Enough of pretending that the army is
destined for external functions only. Once a decision has
been made to use the troops, we have to abandon diplomatic
somersaults and monkey-like grins in order to save the state
from the unbridled rascals and adventurists, who ought to
clearly know that there is an authority over them.  Vladimir
Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.

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