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...watch the hometown Torpedoes defeat the Kiev Dynamos, 1 to 0. But as political observers on both sides of the Iron Curtain immediately realized, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was also playing a game all his own. Only two days earlier, Brezhnev had abruptly canceled his plans to visit Bucharest for the long-delayed signing of a new Soviet-Rumanian friendship pact, pleading a "catarrhal ailment." His subsequent appearance at the soccer match was designed to expose the respiratory disorder for exactly what it was: a calculated snub to Rumania's independent-minded Communist Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu...
...sending out a welcoming delegation headed by Premier Ion Maurer, Kosygin's exact equivalent in government rank but not in real power or party stature. Crowds lining the Soviet Premier's parade route were perhaps one-tenth the size of the ones that welcomed President Nixon to Bucharest last year. Ceausescu stayed away from the formal events, including his own government's official reception and the treaty signing. He entertained Kosygin at one luncheon and spent three hours in private talks with him. As one Bucharest official noted: "We observed protocol as is befitting a sovereign nation...
...struggle with the rising waters of the Danube and its tributaries. Last week, as the river crested at ten feet above its normal level, all but two of the country's 39 districts were either partially or totally inundated. Though emergency sandbagging kept the flood away from Bucharest and the big steel plant at Galati, Rumania has already suffered more property damage than during all of World...
Finding Money. The airlines are 'particularly active hotel builders. Inter-Continental, which is owned by Pan American World Airways, is building in Prague and Bucharest, and this month the 360-room Duna Inter-Continental opened in Budapest. Hilton International, which is owned by Trans World Airlines, this year will add four more hotels from Abu Dhabi to Zurich to its chain of 51 in 33 countries. United Air Lines plans to acquire Seattle-based Western International Hotels to form another formidable travel and lodging combine. An American Airlines subsidiary has just opened the 21-story Chosun in Seoul...
...clear day over Eastern Europe, and the piston-engine Ilyushin 14 plane of Tarom, the Rumanian airline, was flying smoothly on course from Bucharest to Constanta, Rumania. All at once, the plane began pitching and banking erratically. While passengers paled, the captain stepped out of the forward cabin and plopped into a vacant seat. "The comrade director," he explained, "is a very nice man and likes to try his hand at flying...