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...Hungary. Like other Western journalists in the late '50s he could not get visas for Eastern European countries. When the cold war eased in the mid-'60s he found visas often did not help much. While working on a cover story on President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Rademaekers spent three weeks in Rumania and could not "get within ten feet of a high party official." Needing some descriptive details for a cover portrait (TIME, March 18, 1966), he asked a Rumanian press officer for help. What color, for example, were Ceauşescu's eyes? The officer...
Whereas Brezhnev sought barter deals and longterm, low-cost loans, Ceauşescu encouraged West German firms to develop joint ventures with Rumania, in return for 49% of the equity...
Rumania's President Nicolae Ceauşescu underlined this rare sense of independence on an official visit last week to West Germany. Like Brezhnev, who preceded him to Bonn by five and a half weeks, Ceauşescu was looking for more West German help to turn his country into a modern, industrialized nation...
...outside world, Peronist Argentina has hopes of playing an important neutralist role. Last week, while Perón received congratulations from Rumania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, Cámpora went off to an audience with Pope Paul VI, an honor that Perón himself was recently denied...
LAST week TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott was given a rare interview with Nicolae Ceauşescu. Some excerpts...