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Nadia Comaneci, picked from her kindergarten class in the town of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (pop. 60,000) by her coaches because she was "alive," has advanced the sport of gymnastics as much as Olga popularized it. Frighteningly daring, she has developed a series of ultra-acrobatic moves that leave crowds gasping. The Salto Comaneci, to cite one, is a twisting, back-somersaulting dismount from the uneven parallel bars that one U.S. gymnast has a forthright word for: "Madness." Her derring-do, coupled with unusual stability in such difficult and dangerous moves as three back handsprings...
...months since Poland's pragmatic Party Boss Edward Gierek took power, the nation's writers and intellectuals-reflecting the view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely...
...would return home," he says, "must never be allowed to be repeated." To ensure that it is not repeated, he has purged 20,000 Stalinists from the government, including the former police chief. He has also placed the blame for past terrors on his predecessor, the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej-seemingly unembarrassed that Gheorghiu-Dej was long his mentor and promoter...
...Bucharest, a party commission attacked Rumania's late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party...
Tremors & Torpedoes. Just what immediate benefit Ceausescu hoped to gain by the letter remained obscure. After all, Soviet troops left Rumania in 1958, at the insistence of "Ceausescu's predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. There are still 22 Russian divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary...