Word: escu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build up its arsenal of SS-20s, while hoping that pressure from peace groups in Western Europe will force the alliance to scuttle its deployment plans. Some Western diplomats surmised that the bland language of the final document was a result of pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov...
...Writer Virgil Tanase, 36, left his Paris apartment for a rendezvous in the Luxembourg Gardens. He never got there. As startled passers-by looked on, Tanase was shoved into a car and spirited away. Since the missing writer had been an outspoken critic of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, human rights groups immediately blamed the Rumanian secret police. French President François Mitterrand warned that Tanase's disappearance could "seriously affect" relations between the two countries, and he postponed a visit to Rumania...
...when a Rumanian intelligence colonel, who had spent eight years in France gathering sensitive industrial data, turned himself in to French authorities. The agent, Matei Haiducu, 45, told officials of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (the French secret service) that he had been ordered by Ceauşescu to kill Tanase and a second dissident writer, Paul Goma, 45. If the DST would protect his cover long enough for him to bring family members out of Rumania, Haiducu promised, he would tell all about his checkered past...
...down by 1,000 years. Another time [a Rumanian official] came also to speak on behalf of the Soviet Union. This time I again made a concession of 1,000 years. You see, my time limit is becoming shorter and shorter, and when the Rumanian President Ceauşescu came two years ago, and he again raised the issue, I said: 'This time I can make no more concessions.' " Committed now to a struggle of 8,000 years, the Chairman saw no point in tactical maneuvers. Of course, a million Soviet troops right up against the Chinese border...
...multinational banks that have lent funds to Rumania is anxious to see the country declared in default. Rumania's repayment record has been steadily deteriorating in recent years, but default could serve mainly to drive Rumania closer to Moscow, diluting Ceau§escu's longtime role as an independent voice in East bloc foreign affairs. For now, about all Washington can do is refuse new credits, and that it has done. As a way of keeping up pressure for payments of existing debt, Ronald Reagan declined to award $65 million in new agricultural credits...