Word: rumania
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...kisses" and reminiscences of the good old days. "I haven't seen you in 33 years," said Hu as he embraced the East German party chief in Peking's Zhongnanhai compound. Ho- necker presented Hu with a photograph taken during their last meeting at a Communist youth congress in Rumania 33 years...
...encounter was not merely a reunion between two long-lost comrades. For nearly a quarter-century, the Chinese and East Europeans have been bitter ideological enemies. All East bloc governments except Rumania froze relations with China in the early 1960s, following Mao Tse-tung's falling out with Moscow over doctrinal disagreements. Honecker's trip to China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more...
...home in California by his parents, says, "The student body here has been every bit as influential as any of my classes, possibly more influential." His brother Drew, also educated at home, is a freshman this fall. Among Drew's arriving classmates will be Horia Mocanu, who fled Rumania to Turkey with his family in a small boat, taught himself English and, after his U.S. arrival in 1982, earned straight A's at a Cleveland high school, became editor of the paper, founded a chess club and set up an alliance of area high school newspapers. Frederick Rudolph, emeritus professor...
...myth that the modern art that mattered represented a wrenching break with the past. Without the culture of the salon and the Academy, no Matisse; you cannot imagine a work like Constantin Brancusi's Caryatid, 1940, without its triple root in the peasant woodcarvings of the artist's native Rumania, his study of African sculpture and his passion for the archaic Mediterranean...
...days after East's funeral, Republican Governor James G. Martin appointed Congressman James Broyhill to serve the last six months of the term. Broyhill, a 23-year House veteran, had just won a bitter primary campaign for the Senate nomination against former U.S. Ambassador to Rumania David Funderburk, a candidate of the ultra-right-wing National Congressional Club, which had previously backed East. North Carolina Republicans hope that Broyhill's incumbency, however brief, will boost him in his uphill campaign against the Democratic nominee, popular former Governor Terry Sanford, who retired in 1985 after 15 years as president of Duke...