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<text id=90TT0794>
<title>
Apr. 02, 1990: World Notes:Romania
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 33
World Notes
ROMANIA
Blood in the Square
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<body>
<p> Armed with axes, scythes and stout wooden clubs, rival
groups of Romanians and ethnic Hungarians closed in on each
other on a balmy spring evening last week. For a while only
taunts and epithets were hurled. Then weapons flashed, and
blood stained the Square of the Roses in downtown Tirgu Mures,
an industrial city in Transylvania. By the time the army
intervened, three people were dead and scores wounded.
</p>
<p> The fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional
government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions
can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the
Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a
total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for
greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live.
Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several
clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of
the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest
hostilities.
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