180,000 Passports Issued to Romanians
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<i> Reuters</i>
BUCHAREST, Romania — More than 180,000 Romanians have taken advantage of new travel freedoms to obtain passports since dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted in December, the official news agency Rompres said Tuesday.
Under Ceausescu, who was executed Dec. 25, ordinary Romanians were barred from traveling abroad, but the National Salvation Front, which seized power after his fall, abolished the restrictions.
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