Word: dej
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bondage. Rumania's abrasive brand of independence was launched by the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (TIME, March 26), and both East and West have been closely watching the words of his successor, Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, to see whether he would try to slip his errant satellite back into more orthodox orbit. Ceausescu (pronounced Chow-shess-coo) delivered a ringing answer last week as delegates from 56 Communist parties around the world gathered in Bucharest for the Ninth Rumanian...
...Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...
Floodlit Formal. As Chen Yi left Pakistan, China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived. He had flown to Rumania for the funeral of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, stopped at Tirana, capital of Albania, Peking's most distant and tiniest ally, and jetted on to Algeria and Egypt where he reportedly urged Ahmed ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser not to invite Russia to the second Bandung-style conference of Afro-Asian nations scheduled for June in Algiers. Chou's point: despite its possession of Siberia, Russia is essentially a European country...
...worst in Southeast Asia, "the Chinese and Russian peoples will close ranks." But there was no sign whatsoever of incipient togetherness last week when Chou met a delegation of Russians in Bucharest, where Communists of all stripes had gathered for the state funeral of Rumanian Party Leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej...
Walking along only a few paces from Chou, Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan remained aloof and impassive as the mourners trooped with the funeral procession across Bucharest toward what is resoundingly known as the Monument to the Heroes in the Struggle to Liberate People and Homeland for Socialism. There Dej was entombed...