Word: ceau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Nicolae Ceauşescu had to postpone the opening of the Tenth Congress of Rumania's Communist Party for two days in order to give workmen time to take down the American flags on the city's street lamps and replace them with substitute banners in honor of the guest delegations from 66 countries. The new decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid...
...cherished aim of Rumania's in dependent Communist boss Nicolae Ceauşescu is to see his country out grow its role as the melon-and- cucumber patch of Eastern Europe. Nothing will change, he realizes, if the Russians have their way. So Ceauşescu stubbornly resists the integration of Rumania's economy with the Soviet bloc's Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon). Instead, he relies largely on Western technology to turn his country toward industrialization...
...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 to Communist political doctrine-and a police state-to outweigh Moscow's annoyance with his trade ties to the West. Rumania's leaders reckon that they can and must take that risk...
...bloc country, Rumania. Even so, Soviet actions were less than reassuring. In addition to tightening their hold on captive Czechoslovakia (see following story), the Soviets kept up the pressure on Rumania by insisting that it open new talks on their bilateral "friendship treaty," which President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved in, and the Soviets immediately came back at him with their other demand-that Rumania allow Warsaw Pact maneuvers to take place on its soil. It was, of course, the same ploy that the Soviets used...
...Eastern Europe, the threat of military intervention will never be far away. For the moment, however, Eastern Europe's crisis seems to be over. Faced with a solid wall of opposition within Czechoslovakia and the support of Dubček by other Communist leaders (both Tito and Ceauşescu are journeying to Prague this week for a show of solidarity with Dubček), the Soviets had little choice but to let Dubček go his way-at least for a time...