Iliescu inauguration delayed following violence in Romania
Associated Press
FRI 06/15/1990 HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Section A, Page 20, 4 STAR Edition
BUCHAREST, Romania – The inauguration of President -elect Ion Iliescu was postponed today following a wave of the worst violence in Bucharest since the revolution. Club-wielding coal miners continued to patrol the capital.
The miners streamed into Bucharest by the tens of thousands Thursday after Iliescu called for help in putting down anti-government riots. They clubbed passers-by and journalists and raided the offices of opposition parties.
Mirela Roznoveanu, a journalist with the Romania Libera newspaper, said the miners beat a co-worker and destroyed the editorial offices of the newspaper Thursday. The paper, which had been the main voice of opposition against Iliescu and the government, did not appear today.
Although Romania Libera is privately owned, “the government wants to change the editors ,” Roznoveanu said by telephone . She did not know how long the paper would be kept from appearing, and a government spokesman said he had no information on the fate of the paper.
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