The World - News from June 28, 1988
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About 40,000 Hungarians--with tacit official approval--demonstrated in Budapest against Romanian plans to raze 7,000 villages in the biggest independent rally since the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Among the villages to be destroyed under a resettlement program ordered by Romania are ancient Hungarian and Saxon settlements in Transylvania, an area bordering Hungary in which about 2 million ethnic Hungarians live.
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