Word: ceau
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...part naive as far as Russia is concerned, Pisar's thesis is more relevant to Yugoslavia, Poland and the other Eastern countries, where increased contacts are part of a reform that also entails a measure of political relaxation. A notable exception is Rumania, where President Nicolae Ceauşescu combines a liberal, Western-oriented trade policy with a repressive domestic atmosphere at home. By the same token, the Soviet Union may well be shopping abroad for technology simply because it wants to avoid political liberalization...
WHEN the leaders of world Communism pay state visits to the fraternal Rumanian Socialist Republic, they are often startled to find President Nicolae Ceauşescu flanked by bearded dignitaries in sumptuous clerical robes -usually Patriarch Justinian, the primate of the Rumanian Orthodox Church and Dr. Moses Rosen, the Chief Rabbi of Bucharest. Such affronts to the militantly atheist ideology of Communism have been frequent occurrences since Ceauşescu came to power in 1965. High-ranking prelates are now elected to the Rumanian National Assembly. Some members of the Rumanian Communist Party's Central Committee regularly attend Easter...
...exceptionally decent under Communism. Before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the government permitted some 300,000 Jews to leave the country, mainly for Israel. The remaining 100,000 suffer no official antiSemitism, but many long to join their relatives in Israel. But power politics have forced a reversal in Ceauşescu's emigration policies. Having already incurred the displeasure of the U.S.S.R. by maintaining good relations with Israel, he is apparently unwilling to provoke Russia further by allowing large-scale Jewish emigration...
...agers last week and informed them that their long hair offended public morality, the youngsters sheepishly went along to a police barber who summarily sheared them. Later, when the police got around to examining the boys' documents, they found that one of them happened to be named Nicolae Ceauşescu, 18, student. "Father's profession?" asked the cop. "Oh, he's the secretary of a political party," the boy replied nonchalantly. After profuse apologies from the police, young Ceauşescu assured them that there were no hard feelings. It may be that...