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Rumania's Tarom has new, British-built BAC-111s on its international flights, but little else. Pilots hamhandedly overcompensate on the controls, giving each flight the quality of a roller-coaster ride. Stewardesses are plump and cheerful. Breakfast sometimes consists of cold roast pork and sliced green peppers. Bucharest has a modern terminal, but ground service is slow and surly...
...minds of Chinese leaders, cultural exchanges and the arrival of Western journalists would only serve to sully the haven of unadulterated Communism. In fact, the most that the U.S. could hope for in the near future would be an agreement to hold regular discussions. These might be moved to Bucharest, since Poland has made a point of siding with the Soviets in the dispute...
...repeat the Czechoslovak pattern and invade other countries in the area, notably Rumania. Still, Communism is dead as a unifying ideology. In the '70s, the splintering trend will intensify; there may be four or five-or more-Communist movements, with headquarters in Moscow, Peking, Havana, Belgrade and possibly Bucharest...
...seem to have brought Peking to the point of agreeing to a new meeting. Certainly, the Chinese could not have snubbed Ho's posthumous plea for an end to comradely hostility without offending Hanoi. Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer, who stopped off in Peking en route home to Bucharest after Ho's funeral, appealed for Sino-Soviet talks. Moreover, the Chinese had stumbled badly in their handling of North Viet Nam over the past several days. Chou had flown to Hanoi before Ho's funeral, then left with almost indecent haste in the face of Kosygin...
Russia succeeded in making two things clear in Bucharest. First, though the Kremlin originally reacted to news of Nixon's trip to Rumania with seeming equanimity, Soviet leaders are now thoroughly unhappy about it-probably because it was so successful. Second, the Brezhnev Doctrine has become a fundament of policy, which Russia expects both bloc members and the West to acknowledge, even to the point of clearing presidential visits...