WORLD : 5,000 Join Bucharest Protest
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BUCHAREST, Romania — About 5,000 demonstrators defied a government ban today and protested what they claimed was the governing party’s fraudulent victory in Romania’s first multiparty elections after 44 years of communism.
“Down with Iliescu!” they shouted in a downtown square that has been the focus of anti-government and anti-Communist protests for a month.
The government of President-elect Ion Iliescu had said the protest was unauthorized, and police detained three people who helped organize the rally. Only a few traffic police were in sight when the demonstration began, however.
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