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...best on the floor at this particular time." "I really like Ponor," she adds. "She is a great athlete. She is pretty, has a great personality - simply everything." She is also stubborn. As a 4-year-old, she dragged her mother, a bank cashier in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, to the gym to sign her up for lessons. Five years later, when her mother wanted to pull her out of training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from home. Now Ponor is training even harder, cramming up to six hours of exercise into a single...
...allow them more room to maneuver, say analysts. The Poles, for example, are offering 12,000 hectares of firing ground about 50 km from the German border that includes a specialized urban-warfare training facility complete with underground passages, a railway station and a bank. The Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea, already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments. "We want to do things in a highly expeditionary...
...Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...clear day over Eastern Europe, and the piston-engine Ilyushin 14 plane of Tarom, the Rumanian airline, was flying smoothly on course from Bucharest to Constanta, Rumania. All at once, the plane began pitching and banking erratically. While passengers paled, the captain stepped out of the forward cabin and plopped into a vacant seat. "The comrade director," he explained, "is a very nice man and likes to try his hand at flying...
...jeeps arrived in Beirut and less than a week later, they were aboard an Italian freighter bound for Constanta, Rumania. One of the widespread army of Commerce Department informers spotted the 100 crates being transshipped and informed the U.S. Embassy, which wired Washington...