Word: valeriu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents ever faced a more heartbreaking decision than that which last spring confronted Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu, a Standard Oil (N.J.) executive, and his wife in New York. For six years-ever since being banned from their native land by its Communist government -they had not seen their two sons. For two years the letters they hopefully addressed to the children back in Rumania had gone unanswered. But when one Christache Zambeti (TIME, June 8), first secretary of the Rumanian Popular Republic Legation in Washington, offered to release the boys if their father would become a Red spy, the Georgescus...
Heavy, dark-haired Valeriu Georgescu was just about to leave for the office when the telephone began ringing in his New York apartment. He picked it up offhandedly. A second later, listening to the voice of the strange man on the other end of the wire, he felt a shock of mingled hope and alarm. The stranger began by suavely explaining that his name was "Costapeter," and that he was just in from Rumania. Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu understood instantly. He had been stranded in New York during a visit in 1947 by Communist seizure of the Rumanian oil industry...
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