Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool Chat. Next stop was Bucharest. There, the columnist requested some time with Rumania's new boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, who had previously refused to talk to any non-Communist newsman. Within three days, Sulzberger got his interview - a record time for obtaining almost anything in Rumania. Part of the 45-minute chat was even televised. But Sulzberger did not let the privilege intimidate him. In his column Ceausescu got lower marks than he has received from most Western commentators. While granting that the "unabashed nationalist" has shown considerable ingenuity in fending off the Russians, Sulzberger doubted that he will...
...against walls," says Rumania's Petru Dumitriu, who proved his point in 1960 by leaping through the Iron Curtain to settle in the West. What Dumitriu left behind in Bucharest was a rising career as the Communist Party's most applauded novelist, a ranking position as editor of Rumania's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. What he brought with him was an analytical eye and an inkwell full of ideals...
...even more than spurring trade, Rumania was out to further establish its independence of Moscow and the new frontiers opening up in Europe. As Bucharest Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu told the Greeks last week: "We are not influenced by the fact that Greece belongs to NATO and we to the Warsaw Pact. We are making efforts to reach an understanding with other nations, regardless of our position in the Warsaw Pact...
When Russia called the nations of the Warsaw Pact together for their first full-dress ministerial meeting in 18 months, the avowed intention of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was to strengthen the military command structure of the Red alliance. Brezhnev insisted that the conference be held in Bucharest in order to demonstrate that even the recalcitrant Rumanians could be pressed into a show of Communist unity. Yet when the four-day conference ended last week, the best Brezhnev had achieved was a standoff...
...rambling, 18-page declaration issued from Bucharest's erstwhile Royal Palace, there was not a word about a strengthened command structure-clear evidence that Rumanian Leader Nicolae Ceauşescu had once again thwarted Soviet designs. Instead, the declaration reiterated Brezhnev's call for a pan-European "security conference" aimed at the simultaneous dismantling of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. When Brezhnev first proposed the conference in March, he wanted to keep the U.S. out of any European settlement. This time, the U.S. role was purposely kept ambiguous. In any case, there was no indication in Western capitals...