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Congress. With Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Peking's Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-Ping attending, Bucharest had been billed as a head-on Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...
...next became bold enough to make overtures to the West. Without waiting for the Soviets, he expanded Galati by signing a $42 million contract for a steel plant with a British-French combine. The Sino-Soviet split gave Dej another chance to twist the bear's tail. Rumania's Premier Ion Maurer winged off to Peking last year and agreed to boost trade with the Chinese Communists by 10% . He stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back and kindly volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed...
...regards Hanoi's control of the Viet Cong, it has been persuasively argued by Philloppe Devillers (North Vietnam Today, P.J. Honey, ed.), by Oliver B. Clubb (The U.S. & the Sino-Soviet Bloc in Southeast Asia), and others that the North Vietnamese regime refused to support the struggle of the Viet Cong which began in 1957 in response to Diem's repressive policies, in particular, the bogus land reform. Thus, support was not forthcoming until 1960. Since, by this time, the U.S. had violated every principle of the 1954 Geneva Agreements, the limited support in the form of political cadres...
Later Chou had Kosygin to lunch and dinner. Under the circumstances, it was unlikely that the two leaders made much progress toward healing the Sino-Soviet breach or diluting Peking's opposition to Moscow's planned world Communist conference. The Chinese announced merely that a "conversation" took place...
Over the past few years these men have grown ever more diverse in their national interests and their approaches to everything from Comecon to the Sino-Soviet split. Prime disunifier of the lot was Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who had not deigned to talk publicly with Russian leaders in 18 months. He agreed to talk this time, but the official silence was appalling...