Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians did succeed in convincing the lone-wolf regime of Rumania to attend-but at a price. They agreed 1) that the conference would be downgraded to the status of a mere preliminary to a more ambitious future conference; 2) that no party-meaning China-would be "excommunicated"; and 3) that, in order to give the meeting even less importance, party theoreticians such as their own Mikhail Suslov, and not the top bosses, would lead the delegations. Even after getting these concessions, the Rumanians are likely to attend mostly to block any resolutions that might hamper their independence; the same...
Carr's father, an immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month...
...troika has its own worries, however, and no doubt also took to the rails to coordinate strategy for the conference of Communist chiefs scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...
...Poland is cutting away from Soviet television imports and is filling its tube with U.S. shows. Dr. Kildare is so popular in Poland that Communist Party meetings are no longer held on Wednesday nights. Perry Mason argues his cases in eloquent Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia. Rawhide rides hard in Rumania, and Alfred Hitchcock is a chilling success in Bulgaria...