World IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Protests Over Rising Prices Enter 3rd Day
Thousands of Romanian demonstrators roamed the capital, blocked traffic and demanded the government’s resignation in a third day of noisy protests against price rises. The demonstrations underlined the fragility of new elected governments in Eastern Europe’s former Communist states as they try to switch from central planning to a market economy. The protests in Bucharest were ostensibly triggered when the National Salvation Front government scrapped price subsidies, but most slogans were directed specifically at President Ion Iliescu, a former Communist.
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