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...Bucharest, a languid and Latinate city, will be the scene of a major development in East-West relations. It will become the first Communist capital ever to play host to an American President. The Rumanian capital is already busy getting ready for the 20-hour state visit. The Rumanian army band must learn to play The Star-Spangled Banner, a notoriously difficult capitalist number...
...will start in the mid-Pacific, where, on July 24, Nixon plans to watch the splashdown of Apollo 11 from the pickup carrier, U.S.S. Hornet. He will then visit the Philippines, Indonesia (which no U.S. President has ever visited), Thailand, India and Pakistan, from which he will fly to Bucharest. There he will talk with Rumanian Chief of State Nicolae Ceausescu, at the latter's invitation...
...Moscow? The stopover in Bucharest may ultimately prove even more significant than the Asian swing. Rumania is a leading maverick in the Russians' European orbit. Nixon's visit, Washington believes, will symbolize the fact that the U.S. does not accept the "Brezhnev Doctrine," put forth by Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia to justify Soviet intervention in any independent Communist state within its sphere...
...tackling the job of writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing the TIME-LIFE News Service, urging correspondents working...
...material lot is somewhat better than it was five years ago, his monthly pay is still only about $67 and the goods he can buy are generally shoddy because better-quality products of farm and factory are sold abroad. Meat is a once-a-week delicacy and Bucharest butcher shops offer mostly sausage. Lately, Rumanian planners have begun to worry that factories may be pulling so many workers off the under-mechanized collective farms that crop shortages will develop. However that problem turns out, Ceauşescu's biggest economic gamble is political. He banks on his faithful adherence...