Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maxim Gorky Institute of Russian Language and Literature, long a center of Soviet influence in Romania, has been absorbed into the Department of Slavic Languages at Bucharest University...
Glass of Champagne. Harking back to his favorite dream, De Gaulle saw in the misty future a far bigger Europe than most of his contemporaries could imagine. "We must envisage the day," he declared, "when, perhaps, in Warsaw, Prague, Pankow, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Tirana and Moscow, the totalitarian Communist regime which still succeeds in keeping these peoples locked up will gradually come to an evolution compatible with our own transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe...
...RUMANIA has the highest industrial growth rate in Europe (16% annually) and, except for Albania, pays its workers the least (per capita income: $135 a year). Bucharest eagerly cultivates Western traders to supply the latest machinery for its new steel and petrochemical plants; at home political discipline is tighter than ever. When Rumanians last year flocked to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment, the regime tried to offset its popularity by distributing leaflets explaining that the movie was really about decadence in New York City...
...answer to the Common Market, Rumania was supposed to concentrate on growing foodstuffs for the rest of Eastern Europe, thus stunting its own economic growth. Refusing to be a mere "garden for the Socialist countries," Party Leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej insisted on developing Rumania's own natural resources. Bucharest's feud with the Kremlin is still going strong, perhaps the first time on record that a Communist country has publicly stood up to Big Brother and not been pilloried...
...sacred Lenin texts. Actually Lenin, and even Stalin, had argued both ways at various times, depending on conditions-and Moscow pointed out that conditions were certainly different in the nuclear age. When Mao's men carried the attack into a meeting of world Communist leaders in Bucharest in June, Khrushchev was incensed. "One cannot mechanically repeat what Lenin said decades ago," he shouted. "We live in a time when neither Marx nor Engels nor Lenin is with us. If we act like children who study the alphabet by building words out of letters, we shall not get very...