Word: rumanian
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...heavy, black presence a reader might expect, but a slim, rather unformidable fellow with light blue eyes who smiles a lot. A man whom Susan Sontag has sponsored as a guru of Now happens to be the son of a Greek Orthodox priest, raised in a small Rumanian village in the Carpathian Mountains. True, he went to Paris as a graduate student of philosophy in 1937. But he is in Paris, not of it. He scrapes by as a translator and manuscript reader. He never met Camus. He does not know Jean-Paul...
...thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit the U.N. as to drum up trade deals and tour Disneyland (a treat, he was well aware, that was denied Khrushchev during his 1959 U.S. tour for security...
...Nixon will call on Yugoslavia's President Tito, underscoring the Administration's desire for good relations with Communist regimes of all stripes and at the same time its support for Yugoslavia's independence. Nixon is also hoping to repeat in Belgrade the exuberant success of his Rumanian visit of 14 months...
...than it used to be. In pursuit of its national interest, it has even started courting nations that it used to castigate-Yugoslavia, for example. Peking has been host this summer to a strikingly varied group of officials from Zambia, Sudan, France, the Congo Republic, Poland and South Yemen. Rumanian Defense Minister Ion lonita was overwhelmed with hospitality and treated to a private audience with the usually inaccessible Chairman Mao. But for all the activity at home, the main thrust of the new Chinese diplomacy has been in other nations...
...questions. We'd rev up the motors for them, and we'd all laugh and joke." Even without motorcycles, Americans are the object of intense curiosity and admiration, particularly in the provinces. Almost everywhere, they meet friendliness from private citizens, as opposed to government functionaries. In one Rumanian village, a couple of residents broke into tears at the sight of a U.S. passport. The visitors are often astonished by the discovery that many East Europeans admire precisely the apple-pie American isms rejected by vast numbers of American youngsters. "Hungarians really admire American materialism," a 19-year...