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Romania weighs dissident case amid Cold War tensions
In Bucharest a high level meeting with dissident Paul Goma signals Romania’s cautious independent path. Western observers see it as a bid to publish some works, while avoiding wider clashes with Soviet bloc neighbors and maintaining ties to Western communists and the United States. Carter era policy and US-Romanian relations are noted as influencing the handling.
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Bucharest
Romania
Soviet Union
Europe
Soviet Bloc
United States
Paul Goma
Goma
Coreliu
Burtica
West
Germany
France
Goma-Burlica
Pavel Kohbout
Poland
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Carter
Ay Carter
China
Vasile Pungan
Nicolae Ceausescu