Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...
...deep-running break in postwar patterns and allegiances. But they are a part of the stirrings of nationalism and independence, a reflection of the willingness to re-examine the status quo that is inevitably having its effect on the twin military blocs facing off in Europe: NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries...
Curtain Calls. Last week the Warsaw Pact's defense ministers were wrestling with similar problems in a Moscow meeting. The Gaullists of the Communist alliance are the Rumanians, who argue that the pact should be loosened and some Russian troops be sent home from the satellites (TIME, May 20). Private arm twisting having failed to move Bucharest, twice last week Russian First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev publicly appealed for the "unity of the Communist movement...
Extra Cot. For the poor and pious Singer family, home stood at the head of a stinking, garbage-strewn Warsaw slum stairway. There Isaac Bashevis' red-bearded rabbi father (who chastely refused to look a woman in the face and could not, insists Author Singer, recognize his own wife) learnedly ruled his roost. He also ruled his rabbinical court, the Beth Din, an institution that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified...
...final fourth of his book, Author Singer bitingly recounts the collapse of Poland's 800-year-old Jewish community before the brisk and bitter winds of change in the years of World War I. One day in 1916, a group of rabbis was peremptorily summoned to Warsaw's city hall for a meeting with occupying German officials. The rabbis were terrified. Father Singer carefully bathed, prayed, donned his Sabbath best, and resignedly marched off to the meeting. Instead of catastrophe, he met only courtesy. Beneath a portrait of the Kaiser, an epauleted military doctor displayed a big picture...