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...Soviet Union may dislike Honecker's show of independence, but that show has been supported by Rumania, which has often declined to follow the Kremlin's foreign policy line. When Honecker traveled to Bucharest last week to attend ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Rumanian independence, President Nicolae Ceauşescu presented him with the Star of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Mariana Simionescu, 27, former Rumanian tennis star who gave up her career to be a tournament wife; and Bjŏrn Borg, 28, alltime tennis great (five Wimbledon championships, six French Open titles) who retired last year after international competition stopped being "fun"; by mutual consent after four years of marriage, no children; in Monte Carlo...
...measure of great literature is its capacity to serve as a mirror, allowing each interpreter to see his own concerns reflected. By that standard, Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's vision of Tartuffe-a portrait of an absurdist, spy-flecked totalitarian state-is not only legitimate but a tribute to the hardihood of Moliere's 17th century satire of conformity and misplaced religious fervor. Pintilie's production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will not please purists: it is manic rather than mannered, it looks abstract and austere rather than luxuriously "in period," and it ingeniously takes liberties...
Although the Games were largely blacked out elsewhere in Eastern Europe, a television feed was sent by satellite to an unnamed West European country, where videotapes were spirited each day to Bucharest. Rumanian state television broadcast five hours of competition a night, with Rumanian-language voice-overs added at the studio in Bucharest. Not surprisingly, the broadcasts focused on home-team triumphs, though the awesome medal harvest of U.S. athletes was I duly noted. Rumanian commentators said nothing about the Soviet boycott...
...athletes chose arthroscopy, partly because it offered at least an outside chance of competing in Los Angeles. The decision was wise: both went on to earn gold medals in their events, Benoit by winning the first women's Olympic mara thon and Retton by beating out the top Rumanian and Chinese gymnasts for the all-around championship...