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After a round of receptions, parties and dinners, the tour jetted to Bucharest, where a curious crowd gathered to see the first 727 that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...
...Cool Chat. Next stop was Bucharest. There, the columnist requested some time with Rumania's new boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, who had previously refused to talk to any non-Communist newsman. Within three days, Sulzberger got his interview - a record time for obtaining almost anything in Rumania. Part of the 45-minute chat was even televised. But Sulzberger did not let the privilege intimidate him. In his column Ceausescu got lower marks than he has received from most Western commentators. While granting that the "unabashed nationalist" has shown considerable ingenuity in fending off the Russians, Sulzberger doubted that he will...
...against walls," says Rumania's Petru Dumitriu, who proved his point in 1960 by leaping through the Iron Curtain to settle in the West. What Dumitriu left behind in Bucharest was a rising career as the Communist Party's most applauded novelist, a ranking position as editor of Rumania's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. What he brought with him was an analytical eye and an inkwell full of ideals...
...even more than spurring trade, Rumania was out to further establish its independence of Moscow and the new frontiers opening up in Europe. As Bucharest Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu told the Greeks last week: "We are not influenced by the fact that Greece belongs to NATO and we to the Warsaw Pact. We are making efforts to reach an understanding with other nations, regardless of our position in the Warsaw Pact...
...rambling, 18-page declaration issued from Bucharest's erstwhile Royal Palace, there was not a word about a strengthened command structure-clear evidence that Rumanian Leader Nicolae Ceauşescu had once again thwarted Soviet designs. Instead, the declaration reiterated Brezhnev's call for a pan-European "security conference" aimed at the simultaneous dismantling of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. When Brezhnev first proposed the conference in March, he wanted to keep the U.S. out of any European settlement. This time, the U.S. role was purposely kept ambiguous. In any case, there was no indication in Western capitals...