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Rumania's President Nicolae Ceauşescu underlined this rare sense of independence on an official visit last week to West Germany. Like Brezhnev, who preceded him to Bonn by five and a half weeks, Ceauşescu was looking for more West German help to turn his country into a modern, industrialized nation...
...outside world, Peronist Argentina has hopes of playing an important neutralist role. Last week, while Perón received congratulations from Rumania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, Cámpora went off to an audience with Pope Paul VI, an honor that Perón himself was recently denied...
...answer from Ceauşescu has been an increasingly autocratic rule and the nourishing of a personality cult. For two weeks before Ceauşescu's 55th birthday in January, the entire government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected...
...Ceauşescu warily refuses to allow Soviet troops into Rumania to hold maneuvers. Rumania's own 200,000-man armed forces are supplemented by a crack division of mountain troops and a defensive network of "patriotic guards"-a civilian militia system that could muster as many as 1,000,000 soldiers in the event of an attack. But Ceauşescu's real hope for survival is that no attack ever comes...
LAST week TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott was given a rare interview with Nicolae Ceauşescu. Some excerpts...