Word: gheorghiu
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...look again. Stationed strategically between them was Host Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and his head kept swiveling as if he were following a slow-motion tennis volley. For nearly three hours the Rumanian President alternated his attentions like clockwork-15 minutes to Revisionist Mikoyan, 15 minutes to Factionalist Li-while his two honored guests pointedly ignored each other. Nothing, not even the considerable efforts of the host's raven haired daughter Lica, who is a Communist movie queen, could make them even look at each other...
...Orbit. The fact that they were in Bucharest at all was a lesson in latter-day satellitesmanship. Gheorghiu Dej is edging Rumania out of the Russian orbit and toward its own brand of nationalist Communism, mostly because he wants to continue Rumania's successful industrialization and trade with the West, free of Moscow's interference. To that end, Rumania has tried hard to stay neutral in the Russian Chinese cold war. So covetously do Moscow and Peking view Rumania's new independence that the little (pop. 18.8 million) Balkan state has become the most ardently courted nation...
...neither China nor Russia can attend. And the "Belgrade Conference" in turn is not to be confused with the Yugoslavia meeting to be held this month at Marshal Tito's hunting lodge. The lodge meeting will be the most exclusive of all. Just Tito and Rumania's Gheorghiu Dej, whose head may have swiveled last week but was certainly not turned. Their reported subject: how to head off both the Moscow and Peking pre-summits, as well as the summit meeting itself...
...world's 90-odd Communist parties sometime in 1965. Nikita had hoped to convene his sub-summit this fall, but the recalcitrance of his Eastern European satellites-notably Poland and Rumania-forced him to delay. Both Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej feared that an open split with China would free Khrushchev's hand to impose tighter discipline on them, and both leaders had learned to like their new (but still quite relative) freedom...
...invitation, Khrushchev was careful to allay fears; indeed, the tone of the Pravda editorial was almost wheedling. It solemnly endorsed the "unity through diversity" that Gheorghiu-Dej has demanded, and swore that the purpose of the meeting was not to "excommunicate" anybody. Where earlier this year, Moscow had boasted that "nearly all" parties were in favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions...