Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kosygin and other ranking officials shuttled to Moscow's four airports welcoming arriving delegations. For trusted comrades like East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Mongolia's Yumzhagin Tsedenbal, there were Slavic smacks on the cheek. There were no kisses for the arriving Rumanians. Brezhnev proffered a perfunctory hand to Rumania's independent-minded President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, who has often opposed Soviet plans...
...South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. Only a minority would give U.S. assistance in a crisis to such third-world nations as India (37%), Ethiopia (35%), Kenya (33%), Indonesia (32%), or Malaysia (32%). By 2 to 1, Americans would not favor aid to Yugoslavia or Rumania, two of Eastern Europe's more restive nations...
...trouble with the grandiose is that it commonly neglects day-today housekeeping. Over the past year this has proved overwhelmingly true of De Gaulle's personal dominance of the state. While De Gaulle was off on a junket to Rumania French students last May burst into insurrection against the retrograde bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general...
...fully completed next year, the complex will lift the country's annual steel output from 4,400,000 tons to 6,900,000 tons, almost as much as Australia's production and more than Sweden's. Petrochemical plants are rising at Ploeşti, next to Rumania's oil wells, which until recently constituted the country's only significant industry. In conjunction with Yugoslavia, the Rumanians have nearly completed the Danube's largest dam, for hydroelectric power, at a point where the river foams through the Iron Gate gorge in the Carpathian Mountains. Within...
...collective farms that crop shortages will develop. However that problem turns out, Ceauşescu's biggest economic gamble is political. He banks on his faithful adherence to Communist political doctrine-and a police state-to outweigh Moscow's annoyance with his trade ties to the West. Rumania's leaders reckon that they can and must take that risk if they are to build a modern state...