Word: ruma
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...JOHN RUMA...
...Ceausescu, Nixon will probably sound him out on Soviet and Chinese intentions. He may say some confidential things about Viet Nam for Ceausescu to pass along to Ha noi. The President will surely be cautious, however, not to seem to be too cozy. For Nixon is aware that the Ruma nian leader, despite his enlightened and independent foreign policy, runs a repressive police state...
Ceausescu, on his part, will ask for better U.S. trade conditions for Ruma nian goods and more private American investment. He will undoubtedly reiter ate his familiar argument that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact should be dismantled simultaneously as a major move toward breaking down the barriers between the East and West blocs. Discreetly, he may also sound out the President on what U.S. reaction might be if the Russians ever tried a Czechoslovak-style power play against Rumania...
...Iron Curtain authors share -or can afford to indulge- the Poles' ob session with political commentary. Mihail Sadoveanu, the son of an illiterate Ruma nian peasant, somehow learned to write, and from 1904 until his death last year turned out 120 books, became one of his country's most famous authors. He was in no sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural...