Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free a Fluffy Cate ago Tribune London so often derided in the West As junk food for the has been the secret weapon of Eastern Europe no romanian really believed that dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was dead until the National to renamed free Romania showed his with the steam seemed to go out of the pro Ceausescu Czechoslovakia revolution was born in Prague and almost fizzled until the revolutionaries got control of the nations dissident writer Vaclav Havel and the rest of civic forum were talking to the not just a Wenceslas Square Only then did workers and Stu dents in Brno and other cities truly join the the path to revolution in East Germany was paved by West Ger Man West German to is seen in 85 per cent of East Ger and its regular program Ming showed there was another Way to in any the revolution Aries try first to seize the radio television and the government tries to fight them both sides realize that those who control the word control the coun so it was in Eastern Europe last in armed police occupied the to Headquarters at the Start of the revolution they were persuaded to a decision that cemented the revolt in the fighting went on longest around the radio to anti Ceausescu broadcasters barricaded themselves inside and broadcast for Days while under siege from Securi Tate forces trying to regain in both broadcasters and cameramen who had produced some of the worlds dullest television provided some of the most unforgettable images of the revolt romanian to ran and reran videotapes of the Christmas trial of Nicolae and Elena and it was gripping the Cam eras focused on the husband and As they pouted and insisted the court had no denied the charges in displayed a scornful arrogance that More clearly than any history Ever what they were at the after the death sentences were Ceausescu Flung Down his Scarf in a petulant two still pictures Fol Lowed first a Long of two bundles on the then a to image of Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu told romanians More than any East Europe to credited in revolt closeup of one bundle its its cried excited finally convinced of news they had read two Days ear in Prague in czechoslovak to ran footage of the giant weekend rallies on Letna Plain nearly stand ing in cold and chanting for a police officer was shown beg Ging forgiveness for his role in the beating of students one week ear come with the crowd As the nation then Vaclav a civic forum Leader and a roman Catho Lic was filmed leading the vast crowd in the lords the Power of this scene in a coun try still nominally ruled by communists was beyond broadcasting has always been vital in Eastern Europe As the government realized when it set up radio free after the cold War the networks Headquarters in Munich concentrated on broadcast ing reports on events in Eastern Europe to listeners who we rent getting this news from their own radio radio free like the voice of won vast listen even where listening was romanians last month in variably asked american journalists if they were from radio free and seemed disappointed when they if you see the radio free Europe Tell them weve All been a Bucharest Man Treyve kept us in East the broadcasts from West German to became so popular that the government could Only persuade workers to move to factories in the Eastern Boondocks by relaying the West German pro Grams to West German and austrian to programs also Are received in Western hungarians have been tuning into austrian to for As Hungary became its own to became a Magnet for especially Hungar Ian speakers in romanians near Yugoslavia could also listen to yugoslav Sta it was a yugoslav report that people had been killed in a massacre 17 in Timisoara that touched off the romanian that toll probably was inflated by per but the fact that it was picked up by foreign stations and broadcast Back to to mania was enough to Light the the romanian revolution May have been sparked by a but even if have the Power to change the Vars sales spark video uprising among soviets from the associated press Moscow hundreds of Al people clamouring to buy in Al Tel ported Vars surrounded stores in a russian City for five and some even staged a Hun Ger strike and protests demanding the Chance to buy the precious a newspaper said it was the latest show of Discon tent among who Are deprived of Many consumer the newspaper Sovie Skaya Ros Siya described the incident in the russian City of Yaroslavl As a video the disturbance began when word went out that imported Vars for workers who had earned foreign Curr Efcy had been delivered to a store in an Industrial City about 200 Kilometres Northeast of about 200 people immediately surrounded the store and sat through the demanding they be Given the Chance to buy the Vars As two other stores that also received shipments were similarly the newspaper at Dawn of the fourth the angry residents launched a protest on the Central town even City authorities persuaded the workers who were to receive the Vars to share some of them with the the newspaper but when the store at the Centre of the turmoil did not immediately begin Selling some of its 158 Vars to All customers the next a group of citizens declared a hunger after five Days of tur a Happy buyer walked out of the store with the first called the local to station and declared Victory the Panasonic is in my hands Sovie Skaya Rossiya said this was the first time in Yaroslavl history that videocassette record ers were sold freely to the imported electronic goods have been quietly Distri buted Only to the party and govern ment elite or sold on the Black where a Var can Cost As much As the equivalent of these under the Kremlin economic factories that earn foreign currency Are generally allowed to decide for themselves How to spend and they frequently buy Western consumer goods for their the Sovie Skaya Rossiya Story did not specify which Days the video uprising took leaning Tower shut for repairs Italy Reuter the lean ing Tower of the 800yearold Monument which to the anger of local residents is officially listed As a Public was closed to tourists yesterday for restoration grimaced citizens massed in the thousands to watch their in a hurried ceremony relayed live on lock the big Green doors of the tuscan cites biggest Money mayor Giaccomo Granchi told re porters he reluctantly ordered the White Marble Belltower closed for at least three months Only after the italian government promised the equivalent of about million can for repair we cant just shout Wolf Wolf and do nothing said who has warned that closing the Tower could bring his City economic the Tower belongs to the whole and the government has to realize but Well keep if the government Breaks its Well re open the it wont keel soon or he Council officials voted to close the Tower after Public works minister Giovanni Prandini approved a recommendation by governmental pointed experts that the Monument be closed to Stop its record numbers since the experts sight seers have rushed in record num Bers to climb the 294 Steps to the top of the now leaning about five metres off the the Rush helped swell the number of visitors to Pisa Over the past year to five compared to a Previ Ous average of four admission receipts alone bring the City about million a calling the Tower a danger to the the experts said in no vember it is extremely sensitive to winds and Earth tremors in some places the stonework is so damaged it shows signs of breaking Prandini approval of their recommendation to close the Tower took officials in Pisa by Surprise and sparked a War of words with local officials maintain nothing has changed to justify the it is As much in danger of falling now As it always has Giu Seppe the monuments chief told the tonne he tilted by much less Over the past 18 months than the yearly average for the previous 70 anything the variety club of Manitoba the lottery of a lifetime help us to give a kid a 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