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...performance calculated to jangle the nerves of the Russians. There he was, no less a personage than Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, hand in hand with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, dancing the hora while hundreds of young men and women clapped their hands and thousands of onlookers chanted "Hua! Hua!" And the scene of all this commotion was right in the Kremlin's backyard...
...bloody clashes. When the miners refused to budge, Labor Minister Gheorghe Pana and Politburo Member Hie Verdet were sent from Bucharest to talk the strikers back to work. Pick-wielding miners grabbed the two officials and held them hostage in a pit. At this point, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu was summoned from his Black Sea vacation and brought to the scene by helicopter. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, the Rumanian leader warned the miners that unless he can maintain absolute order and discipline, "we will be trampled underfoot by others"-meaning a possible Soviet invasion. He also promised that the miners...
...both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting for a sign from Moscow...
...Dracula is showing signs of life, thanks largely to efforts by Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu to resurrect him as, of all things, a national hero. At ceremonies last week in Bucharest celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rumania's independence, Ceausescu solemnly included Dracula among the immortals in the nation's Hall of Fame. The honor bestowed on Dracula followed a propaganda campaign to refurbish the image of the count. The real Dracula, Rumanian party historians insist, was the 15th century warrior-prince Vlad Dracula, who heroically battled Turkish oppressors...
...these excesses, Rumanian historians note, Vlad effectively maintained law-and-order in his realm and ably defended it against foreign aggression. It so happens that Vlad's virtues, not his vices, are similar to those attributed to Rumania's present-day dictator. While ironhandedly ruling his country, Ceausescu credits himself with keeping both Western imperialism and Soviet expansionism at bay. Summing up the lessons of Vlad's reign, one Rumanian historian notes, "The country can only prosper under authoritarian rule." More turgidly, another Communist analyst contends that Vlad exemplifies "love for the fatherland, undaunted support...