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...Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Legal Adviser Herb Hansell, and Nimetz. Next in order came Dutch Foreign Minister Christoph van der Klaauw, CBS Correspondent Richard Hottelet, and a White House meeting on SALT between the President and Brzezinski. A 5 p.m. trip to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu concluded a typical business day. He manages to get home most evenings...
...grew up in the Rumanian capital, Bucharest, then a city of about half a million people?the right size, neither cramped village nor crushing megalopolis. He spoke three tongues, Rumanian, French and "the secret language of my parents," Yiddish. "Childhood," he recalls, "was very strong. It stayed like a territory, like a nation. In my childhood the days were extremely long. I was high all the time without realizing it: extremely high on elementary things, like the luminosity of the day and the smell of everything ? mud, earth, humidity; the delicious smells of cellars and mold; grocers' shops...
...past, Ellis Island. The quota for Rumanian immigrants was minuscule, and Steinberg was over the limit. While a relative in New York tried at short notice to persuade The New Yorker to sponsor him in the U.S., Steinberg spent a sweltering Fourth of July on Ellis Island and was deported to Santo Domingo on a cargo boat...
...portraits were unveiled. A shrine was being built at his birthplace, in the farm village of Scornicesti. A special exhibition of 60 books on Ceauşescu from 30 countries opened in the capital. Moscow conferred the Lenin Prize, East Germany sent the Order of Karl Marx, and the Rumanian Academy of Political and Economic Sciences chipped in with an honorary doctorate, presumably because Ceauşescu is being hailed as the "author of more than 50 books"-which happen to be reprints of his lengthy speeches...
...title in Rumania, including President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Party, President of the State Council, President of the Defense Council, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Supreme Council on Social and Economic Development. Another, more sinister theory: with weaknesses in the tough Rumanian dictatorship showing up in the form of strikes in the coal fields and criticism by dissidents, other members of the regime might be delighted to pin everything that has been going on in the country on their boss...