Word: rumanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cozy Relations. Moscow is irritated with Ceauşescu for a number of reasons. Rumanian combat units have not participated in Warsaw Pact maneuvers for more than three years. Under a law that he concocted shortly after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, foreign troops may not cross Rumanian territory without permission from the National Assembly. As it happens, the Assembly suddenly went into recess a few days ago. That means that Moscow will have to fly three full divisions, totaling as many as 40,000 men, to the impending war games in Bulgaria, or ship them across the Black...
What most unsettles the Kremlin at the moment, however, is Ceauşescu's cozy relations with China, particularly now that Peking and Washington are beginning to speak to one another. The Russians believe that the Rumanian leader helped to open Peking's door to Richard Nixon both before and during his own trip to Peking in June. With 600,000 Russian troops stationed along China's borders and no sign of an end to the Sino-Soviet feud, Moscow considers Ceauşescu's conduct a grave breach of Socialist solidarity...
...letter from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Foreign diplomats in Rumania believe that the letter advised Ceauşescu that a Communist summit was going to be held in the Crimea but they disagree over whether Ceausescu refused an invitation or was snubbed. But as one high-ranking Rumanian official put it, "If we had been invited, we would have participated...
...with the reality of China." Now, in his overseas trips as President, Nixon made a point of telling national leaders that he wished to open a dialogue with the Chinese. At one time or another, he used the French and the Canadians as intermediaries. Most useful of all was Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the only Communist chieftain who gets along with both Russia and China...
...spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...