Word: ceau
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...shall awake soon from a bad dream." So said a young Rumanian last week, as he watched bulldozers and mechanical shovels snarl and roar through the debris in downtown Bucharest caused by the most devastating earthquake in the country's history (TIME, March 14). Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu announced that the death toll for the country had reached 1,387; he estimated the number of wounded at 10,500, including 2,500 who were still hospitalized. The 20-second quake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by 20 minutes of reverberations, had wiped...
...Rumanian government of President Nicolae Ceauçescu, reports TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, has secretly been looking into the possibility of buying modern armaments, including American F-5 jet fighters, in the West. Such a move, if it materialized, would be unprecedented for a member of the Warsaw Pact. The subject was raised by Rumanian Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister General Ion Coman when he flew to Washington in March for talks with his U.S. counterpart, General Frederick Weyand. But while the U.S. would welcome a "protocol" or limited military relationship, it is reluctant to provide Rumania with...
...Tito, who is 83 and ailing; a Mercedes ambulance outfitted with an emergency cardiac unit follows him wherever he goes within Yugoslavia. In the meantime, the Soviets are wooing as many of Tito's numerous would-be successors as possible. Rumania presents them with a far trickier problem. Ceauçescu is a healthy 57 and may well be around for some time. To be sure, he has his internal enemies, who resent his "personality cult," his nepotistic elevation of his wife and son to important positions and his austere economic policies. On balance, however, Ceauçescu remains...
...Soviet invasion of Hungary. Like other Western journalists in the late '50s he could not get visas for Eastern European countries. When the cold war eased in the mid-'60s he found visas often did not help much. While working on a cover story on President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Rademaekers spent three weeks in Rumania and could not "get within ten feet of a high party official." Needing some descriptive details for a cover portrait (TIME, March 18, 1966), he asked a Rumanian press officer for help. What color, for example, were Ceauşescu...
...Gerald Ford, who is coming up fast as a jovial but strong character actor. Among the performers sharing the limelight will be French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will gather at Helsinki, including spokesmen for the Vatican and every European country except myopic, Maoist Albania. Everyone seemed to be groping for a phrase that would sum up the spectacle. Departing slightly from theatrical...