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Risks & Costs. Supporting Bundy were Polish-born Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, director of Columbia's Research Institute on Communist Affairs, and the Rand Corp.'s expert on Asia, Guy J. Pauker. On the critics' side were the University of Chicago's German-born Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau; ex-Foreign Service Officer Edmund O. Clubb, chairman of Columbia's Seminar on Modern Asia; and Michigan State University Anthropologist John D. Donoghue, who recently spent two years in South Viet Nam's villages...
Slight Thaw. Rumanian foreign policy favors Soviet-style peaceful coexistence, but Dej himself was as much a Stalinist as Mao. A onetime shoemaker's apprentice, he used Stalin's backing to oust Ana Pauker, the Communist Amazon, in 1952. His regime, despite some slight thawing, maintains just about the greyest, grimmest police state in Europe. Not until last year were 10,000 of his 12,000 political prisoners released...
...hierarchy. (To distinguish himself from the rest of the Gheorghius, who are as common in Rumania as Smiths in the U.S., he took the added name "Dej," in honor of one of the many towns in which he had served time.) Since 1952, when he ousted the unlovely Ana Pauker, Gheorghiu-Dej has ruled Rumania without challenge, first as Premier and currently as First Party Secretary. Slow and obstinate in his mental processes, Gheorghiu-Dej is frequently mocked by Rumanians for his ignorance. But, at bottom, his cynical, pleasure-loving countrymen are proud of the fact that Gheorghiu-Dej, alone...
...cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...
...afternoon a cluster of Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...