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...object of all these huzzas was Rumania's diminutive dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, who turned 60 last week amid trumpetings of praise not heard in the East bloc since Stalin's day. Congratulatory telegrams poured into the Palace of the Republic in Bucharest. Busts and portraits were unveiled. A shrine was being built at his birthplace, in the farm village of Scornicesti. A special exhibition of 60 books on Ceauşescu from 30 countries opened in the capital. Moscow conferred the Lenin Prize, East Germany sent the Order of Karl Marx, and the Rumanian Academy...
Sadat almost casually tried out his idea on Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu during a visit to Bucharest three weeks ago. Ceau?escu, who only a few days before had received Premier Begin, said he thought it was a sound idea. Sadat did not tell Carter of his idea?then or ever. He wanted the world to know that his mission was an Egyptian initiative, and not a ploy inspired by Washington. But he felt he had to tell the Saudis. Foreign Minister Fahmy, though aware of Sadat's dream, did not take the proposal seriously. Top Egyptian military commanders...
...Bucharest government sent massive police and army reinforcements to the mines to quell the strikers-which apparently led to bloody clashes. When the miners refused to budge, Labor Minister Gheorghe Pana and Politburo Member Hie Verdet were sent from Bucharest to talk the strikers back to work. Pick-wielding miners grabbed the two officials and held them hostage in a pit. At this point, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu was summoned from his Black Sea vacation and brought to the scene by helicopter. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, the Rumanian leader warned the miners that unless he can maintain absolute order...
Their choice of Rumania is no accident. After the warming of relations between Washington and Bucharest a few years ago, Rumania decided to help a handful of Americans pursue medical studies there-a move that would presumably win friends and expand Rumanian influence in the U.S. The experiment seems to be working. One of the first Americans to be recruited, Abraham Jaeger of New York City, has done so well since his arrival in 1972 that-though he is still a student-the Rumanian government has encouraged him to attend international scientific conferences. Jaeger is no longer lonesome for countrymen...
...always stressed by Rumanian historians. After being captured by Turks in 1476, he was decapitated. His head was sent to Constantinople, where it was publicly displayed on a stake-the impaler impaled. Dracula's headless body is said to be buried in the monastery of Snagov, near Bucharest. It was there last week that a party-line-conscious priest observed of Rumania's new hero: "Vlad was a good Christian and he loved the truth. If he impaled people it was just to put a stop to injustice by noblemen at home and Turks from abroad." With chilling...