WORLD IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Anti-Government Protest Draws 5,000
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About 5,000 demonstrators gathered in Bucharest, chanting anti-government slogans in support of two weeks of protests and strikes in Timisoara, seat of the most vocal Romanian opposition movement. Several hundred protesters temporarily blocked University Square during the two-hour rally in the capital. Unarmed policemen made no attempt to stop the protest or restore traffic. Some protesters carried pictures of Romania’s former monarch, King Michael, and shouted: “Down with (President Ion) Iliescu and the government!”
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