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...U.S.S.R. Rumanian Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu has championed from the beginning the right of Czechoslovakia's reformers to shape their own socialist destiny. When Prague was overrun, he condemned the Soviet attack as "justified by nothing" and defiantly warned a cheering crowd of some 100,000 Rumanians in Bucharest's Republic Square that "tomorrow, perhaps someone will call this rally of ours counterrevolutionary too." Tass was quick to oblige, charging that Rumania, along with Yugoslavia, was "actively" helping "the antisocialist forces in Czechoslovakia." There were ominous intelligence reports of a massive deployment of Soviet troops on Rumanian borders...
...London Bureau Chief Jim Bell, an old Eastern Europe hand, toured the tight Austrian-Czech frontier to interview scores of refugees, and Stringers Bob Kroon, Eva Stichova and Christian Schwinner all pitched in at the Vienna bureau. As tension mounted in nearby Rumania, Correspondent Bob Ball reported from Bucharest...
...Brandt was still West Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with the East bloc -a policy whose moderate success in Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade and Budapest obviously seemed to Ulbricht and his Soviet backers to be a dangerous flanking operation...
Shunning Balkan influence, generations of Rumanian writers, including Eugène lonesco, looked toward Paris for inspiration. Bucharest itself was planned in arrondissements like Paris, with wide, tree-lined boulevards, street cafes and a replica of the Arc de Triomphe. The Rumanian language is peppered with French words...
...Bucharest, a party commission attacked Rumania's late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party...