Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blighted Coast. Western influence has set in, and not only in Bulgaria. Perched all day on the rocks overlooking the beaches reserved for overseas nudists in Rumania, the natives happily ogle the great expanses of German and Scandinavian flesh stretched out below. In discotheques all along the Black Sea coast, local girls dancing with tourists to Kama Sutra's record of Didn't Want to Have to Do It have been known to offer themselves for the night simply for a bottle of Ambre Solaire sun lotion...
President Nicolae Ceauşescu had to postpone the opening of the Tenth Congress of Rumania's Communist Party for two days in order to give workmen time to take down the American flags on the city's street lamps and replace them with substitute banners in honor of the guest delegations from 66 countries. The new decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid...
...reflection of his canny Balkan diplomacy, Ceauşescu addressed his remarks to the Western imperialists, but the Soviets must have realized that the words also applied to them: "Imperialism disregards the national interests of the peoples, brutually encroaches on their sovereign rights." Ceauşescu even remarked that Rumania has civilian defense units trained to "fight for the defense" of their homeland -a hint that Rumania would not be as easy to invade as Czechoslovakia...
Russia succeeded in making two things clear in Bucharest. First, though the Kremlin originally reacted to news of Nixon's trip to Rumania with seeming equanimity, Soviet leaders are now thoroughly unhappy about it-probably because it was so successful. Second, the Brezhnev Doctrine has become a fundament of policy, which Russia expects both bloc members and the West to acknowledge, even to the point of clearing presidential visits...
Ceauşescu's bold speech made it equally clear that Rumania remains committed to limited independence, doctrine or no doctrine. The Kremlin has so far suffered that policy because it is convinced that despite Ceauşescu's foreign policy, the party maintains firm control of Rumania. As long as the country's skillful leader can hold the delicate balance between Rumania's goals and those of Russia, the Kremlin will probably content itself only with more disapproving speeches. Nevertheless, Katushev's address served Ceauşescu an unmistakable warning...