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<text id=91TT2210>
<title>
Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:Romania
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 37
World Notes
ROMANIA
Miners and Mayhem
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<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.
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</body></article>
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