Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imperialist agents" are getting an interested reception in ways unthinkable a few years before. Negotiators for West Germany's giant Krupp empire last week were tidying up a deal to build plants in Poland that will be German-owned but will employ Polish labor, and Hungary and Rumania have expressed lively interest in similar permanent, paying capitalist boarders of their...
Pepsi-Cola is negotiating with at least four satellite countries, and both Firestone Tire & Rubber and Universal Oil Products will build major plants in Rumania. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new trade agreement between a Western nation and a member of the East bloc, typically for double the amount of previous trade. Last year commerce between East and West soared to $9 billion-a 100% jump in seven years. In his State of the Union address, President Johnson asked the nation to explore new ways "to increase peaceful trade" with Communist countries-a goal that...
...guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
Over the past few years these men have grown ever more diverse in their national interests and their approaches to everything from Comecon to the Sino-Soviet split. Prime disunifier of the lot was Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who had not deigned to talk publicly with Russian leaders in 18 months. He agreed to talk this time, but the official silence was appalling...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced the first two contracts to be negotiated under the U.S.'s recently signed trade treaty with Rumania. Firestone Tire & Rubber will put up a $40 million synthetic-rubber factory, and Universal Oil Products will build a $10 million cracking plant in the oil-rich country. At the same time, a couple of U.S. companies were close to closing the largest commercial agreement ever negotiated between the U.S. and East Germany. If the $13 million deal goes through, Standard Oil of Ohio will supply the processes for an East German synthetic-textile plant...