Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half a foreign debt that passed the $12 billion mark in 1982, Rumania has exported so much of its farm output that its own people are often forced to do without staples such as eggs and beef. To conserve scarce energy supplies, Ceausescu has barred private cars from Bucharest streets, urged citizens to use 40-watt light bulbs and farmers to replace tractors with horses or oxen. Says a Western diplomat in Bucharest: "The Rumanians are going backward, at least to the 19th century --maybe to the 18th...
Ironically, for a Soviet bloc country, Rumania relies on good relations with the U.S. to bolster its economy. Last month President Reagan extended the trade status of most-favored nation to Rumania for the eleventh straight year, after Bucharest agreed to allow more than 1,000 people to emigrate. The regime will thus be able to continue exporting to the U.S. without paying extra duties. Reagan granted the extension despite misgivings about alleged Rumanian human rights abuses, which range from torture and long-term political imprisonment to religious persecution...
...leader would comment on the subject of the discussions, but sources now indicate that the two talked about an air link for Soviet Jews to Israel via Poland. Such discussions are, however, denied by Jaruzelski's aides, and Israeli officials dismiss a broker role for Poland. Indeed, Budapest and Bucharest have been mentioned in the Moscow discussions as possible transit points, according to one source. Yet two weeks ago Bronfman visited Warsaw and, say W.J.C. sources, discussed with Jaruzelski the emigration of Soviet Jews...
...Because his highly centralized economy has faltered badly, living standards are so low that the government requires citizens to light each room with only a single 40-watt bulb and for no more than six hours a day. Indeed, Shultz and his entourage decided not to stay overnight in Bucharest in part because they were unsure whether there would be adequate light and heat. When the Secretary's motorcade left the capital at 6 p.m., the city was already as blacked out as London during the Blitz...
...American hunger for travel has inspired the major airlines to expand the number of transatlantic flights even beyond the usual summer increase. One expert puts the total at 97 more than last year. Pan Am alone is flying this summer to six additional cities: Amsterdam, Nice, Belgrade, Bucharest, Athens and Warsaw...