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...Rumania, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu publicly threatened eight writers and intellectuals who had issued an appeal for greater respect for the human rights guaranteed by the Rumanian constitution and Helsinki accord. In a nationwide broadcast, the Rumanian dictator denounced dissidents as "traitors"-a warning that human rights activists were risking long jail sentences or possibly even death...
...advantage of her foreign experience. "In diplomatic circles." says she, "there is a lot of hand kissing." Men are gingerly with her hand, however, since she bought an Iranian ring with two stone-encrusted tigers on it. "I remember a reception in Bucharest in 1972," she relates, "when a Rumanian with a huge red beard bent over to kiss my hand. He was bent over for the longest time and when he finally made it up, there were two long red hairs in my tiger ring...
...deployed on the front line of defense. NATO officers need not worry as much as their Russian counterparts about the loyalty of their units. Speculates a senior U.S. officer in West Germany: "If you were a Soviet general, would you feel comfort able about Polish, Czech, Hungarian -let alone Rumanian-troops?" (However, pacifism and far-left loyalties in several Western European countries are also a concern...
Improved Relations. This week, Brezhnev carries his wooing of East European leaders to Bucharest. It will be the first official visit to Rumania by the Soviet leader since he succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party boss twelve years ago. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu has long offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest...
...hastily called emergency meeting in Chicago Oct. 30, the Council Executive Committee took an unprecedented step. Declaring that "we cannot allow any doubt about a complete repudiation" of the atrocities of the Nazi era, they called upon the Orthodox Church in America, parent body of Trifa's Rumanian churches, to ask Trifa to suspend his National Council activities until the federal courts, and an investigation by the Orthodox Church, settle the case...