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...youngest leaders in the Communist stable and the party's oldest war horse met last week to create more worries for the Kremlin. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauseşcu, 49, and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 75, first donned loden coats and tramped with shotguns through Tito's slushy game reserve in Croatia, loaded for deer. Back for a talk at Tito's hunting lodge near Osijek, they took more careful aim at a larger target: Moscow's campaign for a grand conference of Communist states...
...striving to keep the Russians at a distance, the two biggest revisionists in the Communist bloc have not been getting along ever since Ceauseşcu declined to support the Arabs in their fight with the Israelis in June. At a gathering in the Kremlin, Tito took aside Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a corridor and upbraided him for his refusal to toe the pro-Arab line. He then went home in a fury and canceled an invitation to Ceauseşcu to visit him in Belgrade...
...recent cartoon in the Rumanian Communist Party newspaper Scinteia pictured a chubby bon vivant in a homburg slouched in the back seat of a limousine driven by his uniformed chauffeur. The paper's lampoon was propaganda, all right, but this time it was not aimed at the usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class...
...question of terms has lately achieved a new importance. The Viet Cong, speaking through Russian and Rumanian diplomats, have communicated to the West what seem to be hints that they might be willing to negotiate. Captured Communist documents in Viet Nam tend to suggest the same possibility. Negotiations usually start when one side demonstrates clear military or political superiority and the other side seeks to protect what it still has. The Communists are hurting badly in the field and at home. They are losing more than four men for every one lost by the allies-in some recent actions...
...more liberal men around him. Last week, at a national party conference in Bucharest, he finally threw off the mantle of Rumania's "collective leadership" and took over the presidency himself. He also did away with "parallel" party and government jobs at the local level, reshuffled the Rumanian hierarchy and put some of the Old Guard out to pasture. Among the losers was Ceausescu's only challenger for power in the past, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was dropped as a Party Secretary and became one of several deputy premiers...