European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ges by Randy Mcclain staff writer Ost of the 140 children at the City orphanage in Pilara neat. Romania have parents at Home but no food at Home these children would die Yie if patents have no Money to feed  said or. Teofil Lac Lusu a cardiologist who serves on a team of doctors surveying medical needs in Northeast Romania we have so much to do it s difficult for me to describe the situation Lac Lusu mid the needs Are great antibiotics and drugs Lor cardiac care Are in Short Supply hypodermic Needles Are Loo Lacatus said the Lack of proper drugs and equipment has caused numerous deaths in recent months we have Only 10 percent of the equipment we need and what we do have an infant Peers Over the top of a crib at a neighbor who shares the orphanage room packed Wall to Wall with Beds. Is very old he said. A bitter fact in Post Ceausescu Romania is that the vast majority of children in orphanages Are not from unwed mothers or the products of broken Homes As would be the Case in the United slates instead. The youngsters Are voluntarily surrendered to the state by poor families with no Hope. Al least the orphanage in Piatra Neal is belter than Many in this revolution Lorn nation Here the orphans Are adequately fed and their bedrooms Are kept warm elsewhere physicians have complained about orphanages so cold in the Winter that infants must Wear mittens and Woolen Caps to avoid frostbite the children in Pilara Learnt Range in age from 2 months old to almost 4 some Are handicapped physically a few have menial problems. A room on the orphanage s first floor is set aside for the youngsters psychological development and play its equipment includes stuffed animals building blocks a ring toss and a card set with pictures of farm animals or. Doina Valleana the orphanage s director said her resources Are Loo few but she said leaching aids Are hard to come by her country has Many More pressing problems right now. Saileanu said she s encouraged to hear that Many Lor Eigners including americans Are interested in adopting romanian babies Bui she is unable to give would be parents much encouragement or information about How to adopt unlit the revolution it was l allowed for orphanages to give foreign adoptions Saileanu said i Hope in the future that it will be allowed everyone who wants to have a child should be Able to have one " one complicating Factor is that under romanian Law. A child s natural parents retain the right to veto an adoption As a result. Saileanu said her orphanage has managed to arrange no More than eight or 10 adoptions a year in the recent past if the Law on parental rights is changed it might help Speed up the adoption process she said Saileanu said she has heard Romania s new government is considering taking away natural parents rights once children reach age 3 at this stage though rules for adoption remain unclear ii is a new situation for our country now. And we Don t know the future for our people or our orphans Lacatus said is fighting look place shortly before Christmas among the mourners Are Ion and Loana Barbu. No relation to the Flower woman they have come to pay last respects to their 19-year-old son Mihail. A sergeant in the army he was killed dec 24 defending Bucharest s television station Ion Barbu. An sex Soldier a d the pain of losing his son is eased by the knowledge that Mihaild Dlo win Freedom Lor his country it is belter to die for a Good cause than to die normally the la chef says Bui the violence should Slop Here " Barbu his yes red from crying stands stiffly at the grave site he wears a narrow Black armband on his right sleeve it will remain in place a year As he talks to Wile tends silently to Flowers piled 3 feel High on Mihalis grave a few feel away. 33-year-old Maria Brebenel does t want to talk about revolution or death with Honor instead she talks of pain Vasile was a Golden  Brebenel Sas of her husband tears Roll from her Cheeks onto a Black is scan lied in a Bow around her neck my husband worked in a communications uni Al the Bucharest Airport they were attacked by the terrorists dec 23 Vasile s colleagues said he was she m the stomach i was told he died in an ambulance on the Valo the Hospital Brebenel found the body two Days later at a local Hospital she says her husband is a victim no a hero she Speaks of loneliness and the pity she feels for her  children Ages 9 and 4 the Tad that my husband died in the revolution does i change my feelings she says Curti i feel Only sadness for my children they won t have the Chance to know their lather a Gravedigger works on a cemetery Lor heroes of the revolution the Loes of Nicolae Ceausescu. At right Maria Brebenel leaves Flowers Lor her slain husband. Brebenel says she will Stop Al Vasile s grave Ever Day with a handful of Flowers the cemetery it rear her Home and in s no trouble to visit when she Arn is Ana b