World IN BRIEF : BULGARIA : Bill Taking Property of Socialists Gains
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Parliament tentatively approved a law that would confiscate the property of the Socialist Party--the former Communists who ruled autocratically for more than four decades. The legislation was the first introduced by the anti-Communist Union of Democratic Forces after it won Bulgaria’s general elections Oct. 13.
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