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Rumania's show of independence from Moscow was nothing new. While maintaining tight control over internal critics, President Nicolae Ceauşescu has a history of quietly differing with Moscow on foreign policy issues. He has maintained cordial ties with Peking, kept an embassy in Israel after Moscow broke relations with that country in 1967, and refused to let his troops join in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The decision to send a team to Los Angeles had direct political benefits for Ceauşescu. Government broadcasters boasted that victorious Rumanians had "dedicated" their victories to their President...
That left Rumania as Moscow's only Warsaw Pact ally still wavering. President Nicolae Ceauşescu was abroad when the boycott was announced and has yet to voice an opinion on the subject. It was still possible that some other nations economically or politically dominated by the Soviet Union could decide to join the pullout; Cuba is one such possibility. Even so, it seemed a fair bet that more nations will be sending Olympic teams to Los Angeles than the 81 that participated in Moscow's 1980 Games, which were boycotted by the U.S. and more than...
...continues to build up its arsenal of SS-20s, while hoping that pressure from peace groups in Western Europe will force the alliance to scuttle its deployment plans. Some Western diplomats surmised that the bland language of the final document was a result of pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President...
...exiled Rumanian Writer Virgil Tanase, 36, left his Paris apartment for a rendezvous in the Luxembourg Gardens. He never got there. As startled passers-by looked on, Tanase was shoved into a car and spirited away. Since the missing writer had been an outspoken critic of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, human rights groups immediately blamed the Rumanian secret police. French President François Mitterrand warned that Tanase's disappearance could "seriously affect" relations between the two countries, and he postponed a visit to Rumania...
...last April when a Rumanian intelligence colonel, who had spent eight years in France gathering sensitive industrial data, turned himself in to French authorities. The agent, Matei Haiducu, 45, told officials of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (the French secret service) that he had been ordered by Ceauşescu to kill Tanase and a second dissident writer, Paul Goma, 45. If the DST would protect his cover long enough for him to bring family members out of Rumania, Haiducu promised, he would tell all about his checkered past...