Word: rumania
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...Tehran. Iran has found more than enough alternative sources of food; for example, the Australian government supports the U.S. on the hostages but has continued its exports of meat and wheat to Iran, which this year will total $140 million. Similarly, Iran is importing eggs from Turkey, poultry from Rumania and rice from Thailand. Tehran is making up for the cutoff of U.S. medicines by buying some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant...
...September the Khomeini government signed a contract to double wheat purchases from Australia, to 520,000 metric tons over the next six months. The price is about $20 higher than America's $185 a ton. Meat from Australia and New Zealand, eggs from Turkey and poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran. The country has also been going to Thailand for about 15% of its imported rice, and the Thais have plenty more where that came from. Were the U.S. to embargo shipments to Iran, food produced elsewhere would simply move from one international middleman to another...
...Political geography also helps leftist totalitarianism. It has been most durable in Eastern Europe, wedged snugly within the postwar Soviet sphere of influence, though even in that bloc there have been occasional upheavals and gradual evolutions, as witness the sporadic steps toward some liberalism in Hungary, Poland and Rumania...
...Catholic population is small in four other nations: heavily Lutheran East Germany (whose Christian daily ran a front-page story on the papal tour); Rumania, where Eastern-rite Catholics were forced into the Orthodox Church in 1948 by the Communist regime; Bulgaria, which now has a full complement of Catholic bishops for the first time in 35 years; and xenophobic Albania, which claims to have exterminated all religion...
...Among Rumania's 21.5 million citizens, Ceauşescu's family-fostering ways have stirred no great undertow of resentment. After all, nepotism is an old Balkan tradition and may be a small price to pay for a new one that Ceauşescu himself has invented: keeping independent of the Soviets. In both areas Ceausescu has proved himself an adept...