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Rebel in a bungalow town
Times Staff WriterPlaywright and screenwriter Horton Foote reappears in the kitchen of Ron Bernstein's Hollywood bungalow, where a few other friends of the film-rights agent collect around a table composed just so with voluptuous fruits, delicate French pastries and...Tags: Movies, Academy Awards, Arts and Culture, Vienna (Austria), Patricia Cornwell
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From the archives: Longtime Bulgaria Leader Resigns; Reformer Named
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, the longest-serving leader in Eastern Europe, resigned Friday, thrusting his country into the political maelstrom sweeping the region. Zhivkov, 78, who stepped down after 35 years in power, was replaced as...Tags: Elections, Warsaw (Poland), Diplomacy, Parties and Movements, International Relations
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From the archives: Kremlin Unruffled as East Bloc Allies Go Own Way
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- The Soviet Union, which built an empire of Communist satellite states in Eastern Europe with zeal and determination over four decades, now seems to be watching its breakup with surprising equanimity--and even approval--as one ally after...Tags: Warsaw (Poland), Diplomacy, Parties and Movements, Social Sciences, Entertainment
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From the archives: Troops Fire Into Crowds in Romania
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWARSAW -- Security forces armed with automatic weapons fired into crowds of protesters in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Thursday, killing or wounding an undetermined number of demonstrators demanding an end to the rule of dictator Nicolae...Tags: Family, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of State, Diplomacy, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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From the archives: Thousands Join E. German Exodus
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGIESSEN, West Germany -- Thousands of young East Germans arrived by special train in West German reception centers here and elsewhere Sunday as the refugee crisis in Bonn's diplomatic missions in Czechoslovakia and Poland appeared to flare up again with...Tags: Movies, Mikhail S Gorbachev, Warsaw (Poland), Hospitals and Clinics, Berlin (Germany)
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From the archives: Danube 'Blues' Alter Politics for Hungarians
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNAGYMAROS, Hungary -- One cool spring day in 1980, Janos Vargha, a biologist-turned-journalist, visited a village on the Danube and was asked a question that would alter politics in Hungary forever. Vargha, 44, had been sent to report on pristine...Tags: Rivers, Budapest (Hungary), Parliament, Wetlands, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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From the archives: Exodus of East Germans Swells
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBONN -- Thousands of jubilant East Germans began crossing into Austria and freedom early today shortly after the Hungarian government opened the border with a dramatic announcement late Sunday, declaring that all East Germans in its territory seeking to...Tags: Budapest (Hungary), Roman Catholicism, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Christianity
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From the archives: The Warsaw Pact Condemns Its '68 Invasion of Prague
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Leaders of the Warsaw Pact, removing what had remained an important political and psychological brake on reforms under way in Eastern Europe, Monday condemned as illegal their countries' 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia that brought an end to the...Tags: Mikhail S Gorbachev, Economic Policy, Warsaw (Poland), Government, Parties and Movements
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From the archives: Protests Topple Czech Regime
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia -- The hard-line Czechoslovak regime cracked under the weight of mass public dissent Friday after one of the most extraordinary days in the country's postwar history. It was a day that saw the downfall of repressive Communist...Tags: Warsaw (Poland), Journalism, Freedom of the Press, Diplomacy, Government
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From the archives: Ceausescu Arrest Told; Battles Rage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLONDON -- The fiercest battles yet in a week of bloodletting rocked the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Saturday amid reports that deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is under arrest by the army. There was convincing evidence that the death toll...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Foreign Aid, Television Stations, Death
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From the archives: 'Bad Old Days' Not Forgotten
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBUDAPEST, Hungary -- Tivador Partai, the president of the revived Smallholders Party in Hungary, is 80 years old. His study in the old house in the Buda hills where he has lived most of his life is lined with books and mementos, portraits of long-dead...Tags: Prisons, Budapest (Hungary), Elections, Democratic Party, Arts and Culture
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From the archives: Berlin Wall to Come Down, Bush Predicts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- President Bush, who three months ago called for tearing down all physical barriers that divide Europe, now flatly predicts the Berlin Wall will be dismantled during his presidency. His comments, the latest sign that Washington expects...Tags: Elections, Budapest (Hungary), Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, Television Stations
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