Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contact Points. What channels? They are numerous and easily accessible. Both U.S. and North Vietnamese diplomats are stationed in such capitals as Moscow, Warsaw, Cairo, Algiers, Rangoon, Prague, Belgrade, Bucharest and Budapest. Moscow and Warsaw are considered the most likely contact points -largely because the resident U.S. ambassadors, Llewellyn Thompson in the Soviet Union and John Gronouski in Poland, have close links with the White
...their drive to purify Rumania's youth of Western influence, the Communists have also decided that bare legs are as bad as shaggy chins. Though red-blooded Rumanians like to think of Bucharest as "the Paris of the Balkans," the authorities have also banned miniskirts. When nubile girls came upon some Western fashion magazines and began drawing up their skirts over the knee, the regime began dressing down the culprits. The styles quickly changed, but the Rumanian girls, most of whom are their own seamstresses, did not completely toe the party hemline. The latest style is the knee-length...
...diplomats in discovering how to get along with the East. West Germany is second only to the Soviet Union in trading with East ern Europe, second to none in sending tourists. Mercedes and Opels with West German license plates line the streets in front of the best hotels in Bucharest and Prague. In summer German tour ists bask under Bulgaria's sun at low-priced Black Sea resorts; in winter they fly down the ski trails of Rumania's Carpathian mountains or the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia...
...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
After a round of receptions, parties and dinners, the tour jetted to Bucharest, where a curious crowd gathered to see the first 727 that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...