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Never before had an Israeli Premier been able to worship with fellow Jews in a Communist country. Last week, during an official visit to Rumania, Premier Golda Meir took time out to attend a synagogue service with 1,500 of Bucharest's 50,000 Jews. "We have problems in Israel," she told them in Yiddish, "but it is better to have problems in your own land than to be without a land of your own." After the 2½-hr. service, Mrs. Meir broke away momentarily from her Rumanian bodyguard outside the synagogue to exchange Sabbath greetings with some...
...meetings with Communist leaders. Mrs. Meir, who celebrated her 74th birthday last week, had begun the trip in an exuberant mood, fending off newsmen's questions about the prospects for her visit with a Jewish proverb: "The power of prophecy is given to children and fools." Under leaden Bucharest skies, she reviewed a goose-stepping honor guard. Rumanian girls in peasant costume presented her with flowers and then lustily kissed her startled coterie of three male aides...
...ruler who was thought to be immortal by many of his subjects. But even at the height of his power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile, still regarded at home as part despot, part national hero. Above all, he was the prototypical African nationalist and the first leader of a British colony to win independence for his country after World...
Strange stories were circulating last week about mysterious events in Bucharest. One of them centered on the supposed execution of a Rumanian general named Ion Serb who reportedly was shot by a firing squad for handing over defense secrets to the Russians. There were also reports of sudden demotions. One of the country's most powerful leaders, Vasile Patilinet, lost his important post as the Central Committee Secretary in charge of defense and internal security, and was relegated to the minor job of Minister of Forestry. Two other officials, including the country's propaganda chief, have also been...
...Party Leader Nicolae Ceauşescu was punishing a group of opponents who last summer had participated in an unsuccessful plot to oust him. After Ceauşescu returned from an extended tour of China and the Far East last June, there were rumors about coup attempts in Bucharest. At an all-day meeting of regional party leaders, Ceauşescu was criticized -and reportedly even booed-for having made passionately pro-Chinese statements during his trip that unnecessarily annoyed the Russians. For the moment, Ceauşescu remains in control. But the lack of success of his Western-oriented...