Word: bucharest
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...dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest. If so, the seeds of cold war disengagement that Charles de Gaulle planted along his triumphal 6,200-mile march through Russia may come to flower sooner than expected. But even if not, the De Gaulle visit will have served as a useful icebreaker in the process of preparing both...
Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...
...defense ministers were wrestling with similar problems in a Moscow meeting. The Gaullists of the Communist alliance are the Rumanians, who argue that the pact should be loosened and some Russian troops be sent home from the satellites (TIME, May 20). Private arm twisting having failed to move Bucharest, twice last week Russian First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev publicly appealed for the "unity of the Communist movement...
Still, Ceausescu has something to gain merely by causing tremors in the Iron Curtain. At the Soviet 23rd Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...
Whatever the spark for the summit, it was one that Brezhnev could not avoid. The Russian leader had been planning to go to Bucharest anyway, but Ceausescu's startling speech must have made the trip much more compelling...