Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever against Russian domination in Eastern Europe. Displeased, the Soviets in turn are pressing to hold Warsaw Pact maneuvers in Rumania this spring. Last week Soviet Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, the Warsaw Pact commander, and Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, until recently the Russian viceroy in Prague, visited Bucharest for a chat with Rumanian leaders...
...U.S.S.R. Rumanian Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu has championed from the beginning the right of Czechoslovakia's reformers to shape their own socialist destiny. When Prague was overrun, he condemned the Soviet attack as "justified by nothing" and defiantly warned a cheering crowd of some 100,000 Rumanians in Bucharest's Republic Square that "tomorrow, perhaps someone will call this rally of ours counterrevolutionary too." Tass was quick to oblige, charging that Rumania, along with Yugoslavia, was "actively" helping "the antisocialist forces in Czechoslovakia." There were ominous intelligence reports of a massive deployment of Soviet troops on Rumanian borders...
Rumania seemed outwardly calm, but both government and people grew gnawingly uneasy over Russian intentions. On Monday, a gleaming black Jaguar Mark X pulled up to the broad steps of Bucharest's imposing Central Committee building. A brisk little man in a dark suit climbed alone into the back seat. It was Ceausescu, off to the industrial center of Brasov to address factory workers. He was on the move throughout the country each day last week in a skillful and seemingly remarkably successful campaign to rally his people behind him in preparation for a possible clash with the Soviets...
Quiet Preparations. Wherever Ceausescu went, he assured his audiences that Rumania would fight if invaded. Though he did nothing comparable to Tito's open show of force, military preparations were quietly under way. Reserve officers were called up over the weekend for "exercises." In Bucharest, members of a newly formed militia, officially called "patriotic armed detachments of workers, peasants and intellectuals, defenders of the independence of the country," were issued guns and drilled briskly. Responding to reported shifts of Bulgarian armored units to the Danube River border, the Rumanians moved tanks within striking distance of the bridge at Giurgiu...
...spirit as well as in title. Rumanians are clearly satisfied that the party leadership has refused to knuckle under. Ceausescu thus has accomplished in Rumania something like what Dubček earlier achieved in Czechoslovakia: the party has acquired its first genuinely widespread popularity. The Czechoslovak ambassador in Bucharest has a fat file containing the names of local families who have volunteered to take in stranded Czechs. A Rumanian writer who spent seven years in jail for organizing a demonstration in support of the rebel Hungarians in 1956 reported that scores of people are now joining the party-including many...