Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cluj is also the home of Editor Dumitru Radu Popescu, 30, who touched off a storm of criticism last October with his story The Blue Lion, a scorching critique of early Communist schooling in Rumania. In one scene, Popescu and his classmates are being searched by a zealous Paukerite teacher for "poisonous" books from the perennially locked school library. "They frisked our pockets and passed their hands over our bodies," wrote Popescu, "and since this didn't seem to satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah...
Unfulfilled Plan. Rumania's cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...
...Baby or Car?" But if Rumania brings up the rear in cultural freedom, it is nonetheless surging forward economically. With a growth rate of 13% annually, Rumania runs well ahead of the others, and even when measured by the solid standard of gross national product, it ranks fourth of seven: behind East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, but ahead of Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria. In order to keep hopping on its canny leap forward, Ceausescu's regime relies on an abundance of natural resources-oil and timber, coal and untapped rural labor reserves. In other European countries, the supply...
...Rumania's trade with the West has risen a significant 13% in the past decade: from 20% in 1955 to more than a third of the total last year. During the same span, trade with Russia fell from 69% to 41%, nearly as much as with Rumania's Red neighbors. "Why should we send corn to Poland?" asks Premier Maurer. "So Poland can fatten its pigs and buy machinery from the West? We can sell our corn direct and buy the machinery we need ourselves...
...Rumania has been buying from a horde of hungry Westerners. The West German firm of Gutehoffnungshütte won a $20 million share in building the mammoth Galati Steel Mill at the Rumanian end of the Danube-and when the deal was consummated, at a candle-light-cum-gypsy-violin blowout in Bucharest, the Rumanian Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry, Constantin Nācutā, executed a neat hora on the tabletop. Demag and Siemens, Krupp and M.A.N. all add to a German investment in Rumania that exceeds $50 million. Italy's Orlandi is building...