Word: mikoyan
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...striped canvas tent, nibbled caviar and quaffed Rumanian champagne and Riesling in mellow tribute to the city's "liberation" by the Red army in 1944. And there, sharing the head table, were none other than Red China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien and sly old Anastas Mikoyan, President of the Soviet Union...
...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...
...Rumanians refused to invite the peripatetic Nikita Khrushchev to last week's party for fear that he might steal the spotlight for himself and use it to blast Peking. Moscow asked permission to send President Mikoyan instead. Peking, hailing its "traditional" ties with a land few Chinese had even heard of, renamed one of its infamous state farms the "Marco Polo Bridge Sino-Rumanian Friendship People's Commune...
...world's 90-odd Communist parties, called by Moscow and opposed by Peking. Ostensible purpose of the conference is to settle all party differences and to guarantee victory over Peking. Moscow has invited 25 key parties, including the balky Rumanian, to a pre-summit strategy conference in December. Mikoyan's primary job in Bucharest last week was to persuade Rumania to attend. He failed...
...Khrushchev, it seemed a safe enough solution: Mikoyan as loyal front man in the official hierarchy, Brezhnev as loyal stalwart and deputy in the party ranks...