Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list that grows longer and unlikelier almost by the day, press reports last week added Rumania as yet another would-be mediator of the war in Viet Nam. No sooner had the State Department replied that the Rumanian government has given "no indication" that it has any interest in acting as an intermediary, than Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that his government is trying once again to reconvene the Geneva conference that split North and South Viet Nam into separate entities eleven years ago. "The American Government is prepared to have discussions on the basis...
...signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled since 1955 to more than $500 million a year. West German trade missions are active in Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland...
Bulgarians are already hearty soft drinkers, satisfying their thirst mainly with boza, a rye-based soft drink similar to Russian kvas, or with a Coke imitation known as Bulgar Cola. The government is not anxious to change habits. Like Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians have imported Coca-Cola from West Germany to please Western tourists. With a record 1,000,000 visitors expected next summer, Bulgaria is merely taking the sensible step of providing a local Coke supply and cutting import costs...
...during World War I. West Germany now sings only the third verse of what through Hitler's time was known as Deutschland Uber Alles, and even that was borrowed from Austria. Two East European nations are now revising their own postwar anthems, written to please their Russian masters. Rumania is cutting out the line about the "liberating Soviet people," and Bulgaria is bent on sinking the "great sun of Lenin and Stalin which lit our way with its rays...
Ceausescu again defended the Rumanian decision to industrialize, and as for Comecon trade, he asserted flatly that "Rumania develops economic relations with all states, irrespective of their social system, on the basis of mutual advantage." Ceausescu went on to make clear that Rumania's economic independence was merely the handmaiden of political autonomy. "Each [national] party has the exclusive right to independently elaborate its political line," he announced. He called for the abolition of all military blocs and, in a reference ostensibly to Viet Nam but which surely raised eyebrows among such members of his audience as East Germany...