WORLD IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Regime Urges Talks but Arrests Critics
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Romanian officials invited student organizations and intellectuals to discuss “problems of common interest,” the state Rompres news agency reported. But the government also continued its crackdown on dissent by arresting two prominent critics of President-elect Ion Iliescu, Dumitru Dinca and Nica Leon. In Washington, the State Department said U.S. Ambassador Alan Green will boycott Iliescu’s inauguration today to protest the violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations last week.
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