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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...
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...
Bear Twist. Rumanians have always hated the Russians anyway, but Gheorghiu-Dej chafed particularly under the raw-material-supplying role assigned his country by the Soviets' version of the Common Market, Comecon. He had no intention of letting Rumania be a combination "market garden" and "gas station." Instead, he talked the Soviets into supplying iron ore and machinery for the construction of a huge steel complex at Galati...
Died. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 63, President and Communist leader of Rumania, the self-educated son of a metalworker, who joined the Reds in 1929, went to jail three years later for leading a rail strike, was freed by the Soviet Army in 1944, and came to power when King Michael was ousted in 1947, ruling ever since; of pneumonia; in Bucharest (see THE WORLD...