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yeah they are fao forecasts laboratory and experiment in public television tonight over at impressionistic along the land around this time in its history remain a nation moving precariously out of the shadows of the soviet orbit into increasing contacts with all nations of the world like a close up portraits of the nation to assess the larger significance of romania's struggle to increase nonetheless ring ring of america's foremost authorities on april how the us ambassador to russia under president roosevelt director of the post war marshal line for european recovery counselor to four presidents on the west soviet of this
interviewed by john c campbell at the council on foreign relations and my toes or center of the university of california at things right romania a country on a high wire and this is the man leading his nation we're meeting the people missing for fifty years every state and party moving with certain stay on a course of the points of the list for a new sense of national identity for his nation's lantern was prompted many romanians the plane that says he gained nineteen sixty five a fresh breeze has blown in that country with increasing
again twentieth nineteen sixty eight the i might of the soviet union and forwards warsaw pact allies press czechoslovakia the country other than the victim of the invasion was more effective than the men because it to have been following an independent course in defiance of russia romania's troops did not participate in the military intervention and its leaders were kept in the dark about sylvia plath hersman conflict in congress and enormous crowd gathered in front of the communist party before they heard a fiery address by russia's he showed a defiant and the russians didn't and there actually is an unprovoked unjustified and uncivilized and the bulk of romania would not succumb without armed struggle
people lucy ok justice who reiterated his condemnation ocean action and he suggested instagram and tragic mistake that have been perpetrated could still somehow be rectified if the troops without the national assembly adopted a resolution involving a decent hour use on the following day august twenty third romania celebrated the anniversary of its liberation from the fashion you see in nineteen forty four to commemorate the occasion under the circumstances the
parade of acquired special significance it was transformed into a national manifestation of solidarity of support for ceausescu's a position that also reinforced design question preeminence among leaders of government and the communist party without which you would be pointless the american military attache russian built jets chant russian built a soviet i'm just a reminder of the precarious this atrocious who's balancing act romania's military was displayed with ostentatious but no one in government was naive enough to think it would be anything that the russians really wanted to move in well the white house and members of the people's militia mobilized a little baby ford also managed in review with obsolete
rifles but filled with pride and ready to fight if called upon the parade in that with that almost forgotten battle hymn of the proletariat the international song by five thousand members of the romanian communist party girls in a way the key geographically less exposed to the west and czechoslovakia romania nevertheless lies a surprise strategic crossroads and traditional invasion roots in southeastern europe it's history of gratitude by invaders from almost every direction beginning with the romans two thousand years ago collett testified to that the country has a very long common border with russia some eight hundred
miles inland on the russian side of the province of bess arabia taken from romania in nineteen forty its border with hungary comprises about two hundred and fifty miles and hungary having a friendly neighbor it has never acquiesced and the annexation by remaining of the province of pennsylvania without getting a minority population numbering about one in three quarter million and in the south ward area is not a friendly neighbor either that leaves a three hundred mile stretch along which romania places yugoslav relations between these two countries have been friendly for many years and they've grown even closer together under very new threat of soviet military the question might well be raised why should remain you'd be in danger none of the symptoms of democratic reform that characterize czechoslovakia can be detected in women joy intents and purposes it is a police state in which the communist party rule so bring economy centralized art and literature are muscle mass media serve the interests of the party
people are restricted in their travel to the west however people do not now live in constant fear of persecution as for the party precisely because it has been monolithic and has not had to contend with any internal challenge to its power it has for years been able to pursue a stubborn independent course in regard to domestic economic development and foreign affairs instead of promoting democratic reforms is capitalized on the power for nationalistic instinct of the remaining population is reduced russian influence in the schools in literature and in the arts and is emphasize the protein remain in ethnic cultural and linguistic traditions transfer national sovereignty emerged during the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties when georgia georgia days romania's iron fisted communist boss was still in command on his death in nineteen sixty five he left behind the ambiguous legacy of a rigid only system and a cautious search for national self assertion his successor nicolay ceausescu as a temper and the harshness of control and to
broaden the limits of national self determination romania persists in its resistance to the efforts of the comic con the soviet dominated east european counterpart of the common market to ensnare egan multilateral development schemes that would downgrade its industrialization romania's membership in the warsaw pact the communist country part of nato is at this stage a little more than nominal a necessary precondition for the show of independence was the departure of soviet military forces from romania in nineteen fifty they had been stationed there since the end of world war two without the leverage of military force inside romania the soviet union has so far lack the means to force the romanians to vinnie is witness the steady erosion of its power over and influence in romania was leaders have become the most vocal and persistent champions of the absolute right of self determination of all nations this passionate belief in independence does not accord with russia's recently mounted a doctrine of limited
sovereignty for this more socially states and the soviet sapper a gated right to intervene in the affairs of any socially state that appears to be faltering in the fulfillment of its international obligations czechoslovakia for its last october pbr set out to probe the particularities of many forces at work in remain the romanians cooperated fully during five weeks of filming our crew had complete freedom of movement no romanian official accompany our interpreter was an american exchange student we travel by car and made numerous unscheduled stops we did of course regularly checked by telephone with ali is on him to remain in ministry of foreign affairs and upon our arrival it scheduled stops local officials were clearly a prized of our identity and our mission we let impressions of the nation going to mine and entrepreneur all my countrymen have cried to me that no longer can the bears' so much for an impression from the nice true of the
tea set from fourteen to the sea and the mountain hordes embassy in back to her teen always to us today from two veteran dorney however stood still or you crushed by them to land until i no longer high atop the mountains and deep in the valley is so have our enemies ravaged us it and in every human being without receiving nothing comes his way it'll not even so no summer he is a stranger in his own land
so many different people have been through a year almost anyone might be strangers but these descendants of the day show people and they were on the lam long before the hungarians came down from the north a slush fund to use in the church of the sect eventually the patients were defeated by the romans became concord and state entities romanians are proud of the latin roots of their language and of their own blood that was october nineteen sixty and replace the occasional heart and here is the man who's known as the nickel each oceans he's here with his wife and party officials to meet the people to assure them of the steadfastness of the communist party in government and to seek their support
nice by the plane's beacons chanting his name sound system is so so since august when the czechoslovak invasion the president has seized every chance to speak in person in his family were the most from where our national unity in the face of the possibility that the russians might move
into mania the point we know the first bill forces which would work there are aggressive imperialist circles but at the same time is wrong forces which are anti imperialist which unites when an insurer he's convinced ourselves that is possible but the conditions for bringing about security in europe are possible but for this was necessary that every country in europe perry on a realistic policy in this reality more than ever impose upon us the obligation that we do everything for
developing cooperation and friendship among the countries of europe for the exclusion of the use of force in resolving problems of education and that we do everything for the respective independence and integrity of the territories of each european country of mark simmonds so they need but are people cannot be free with it dominates and other people as well and also in the sense that if people cannot be independent and that jeopardizes the independence of other the familiar desktop as in august but still obvious references to czechoslovakia and condemnation of action and emphasizing the need for their rights and social status exalting the ideals of sovereignty and eight this giant them on the border as a symbol of that notion of sovereignty the most ambitious project in romania's piper industrialization despite russian opposition dr begun numbers
show shares his predecessor george exhorted the massive complex of them are stationed on navigational locks will be the largest in europe which started in nineteen sixty four nineteen seventy two now shipping on that then we'll be triple fifty million times a minute and just being like this question apple the combined cost of four hundred million dollars is being paid by yugoslavia there on the other side of the two countries' close physically and politically but many remain envious of development for a socialist country to spin out a little bit of her this fight global insight and a regular on in
belgrade yugoslavia hundred and thirty five miles to the romanian town of tunis a reminder that the fate of the two countries is inevitably going to do on the other side of romania the ultimate destination of the danube runs a new resort area might remain as miami and alexey the season here assured its best
october first and it's a ring but the appeal here is the same as ordinary class clear these hotels how many checks and slow won't instill more radiation from western world obviously is to lure travelers from even for the west or to the port of constance a nearby animal is remaining is maintaining shipping imminent is a function of an effort to diversify orin kerr and develop the exchange opens with as many countries as part of ten years ago of trade with russia made up fifty two percent of romania's for income now that figure is down to twenty seven percent
of equipment or refining an inspection of all lumber locomotives steel pipes machine fuel and many foods now jeff so within this bill this british industrial exhibition have been oppressed in
october is the first of its kind anywhere in eastern europe since world war ii the emphasis is largely unsophisticated machinery in mining textile homes and there are many asked for british to set up the exhibition and representatives of one of the companies came to show their way the british were pleased with the crowds that exceeded expectations and hopes that enthusiasm extended beyond is one of the managers and ministers and often british goods have already made some inroads on supermarket show is taking place along with assorted imports from an assortment of nations some of the items not likely to be especially the united states liked chinese whiskey most and run from cuba certainly not but pepsi cola yes indeed
his bottling plant outside instance established to you is an example of cooperation after that the private and the arrangement acceptable to the soviet system as profits they remain the only came into the parenthetical people who settled the land capacity ten thousand miles in all of it were domestic maids to label or eleven cents in or the lecture is rare in the northern american from noah california is teaching at an industrial management school outside brokers are the school was established with help from the united nations and for development and the international labor organization it is not the only one of its kind in eastern europe but it has the line ray biddle is one of eleven foreign experts on the faculty the only american he doesn't
seem to have too much trouble with the language primarily because of the services of an expert translate it's b remaining industry managers taking crash courses in management homegrown experts are indeed in a country that had been largely agricultural and is now booming along the road to industrialization course is very fun tweaking one week years to seven weeks spent over a month bill yeah yeah well we'll read
the entire term this is the control center of a giant steel mill intelligence right on the soviet more automated equipment in the way the mail is a monument to remain as political decline to russia and a symbol of national economic the cheap dismissive it permits parents allowed to satisfy the needs of its imports of wars have quadrupled making romania somewhat vulnerable to the remotest
the soviet union denounced construction of the bickering to steer many of the main kurdish or even steel production to russia they're minions went ahead anyway decision than most characters the pain melissa the full production here will double remain year's totals dealer much of it or domestically but also for shipment france germany russia all in the output of this plan is helping to push the industry growth rate over eleven percent
rate exceeded only by japan ten thousand workers are here now and eventually the numbers to authorize it as the soldiers supposedly another unplanned reasons of security supposed to work there here to do menial construction and they certainly don't act as though the motherland were exposed to immediately as if there's an excitement over the progress of this deal which is almost finished now after four years of construction and the vastness of the project oration of what has been accomplished the scene right now is a special energy about the place that is not characteristic of the rest of the nation as though the people here care only about getting a job done and facts ma'am so far show shares his five year plan goals have been met and
often exceeded its remaining associate working class population constantly expect two million workers now in a population of one equally important the new industrial installations islam is joining us it centered around boyish forty miles north of these refineries and oil fields were the targets are devastating allied air raids in working because they were then a major source of supply of the german war machine three rebuilt and modernize since nineteen forty five when a produce more oil than ever before and romanians are profiting from the production from nineteen forty five to fifty five of these wells who really pumping because the soviets controlled manners different productions since nineteen fifty five
romanians would expose conflicts and develop and now romania has advanced to the point where its workers and technicians are so skilled and there are so many of them that they can be sent us training teams to developing countries like cuba and india another one of the many instances remain you're eating out on its own or contacts outside the socialist mayor to focus at sixty miles north of oysters a year the chemical industry center similarly this was planned and started in nineteen fifty three by russian managers risk of a man and so there was nothing remotely resembling the site was chosen because of the proximity to boil industrial sodas and so natural gas and rare dissent
today are many managers say there were many mistakes an initial planning but now that they are making the decisions production is on the right track sales and this entire city was built up around the industry come and was named georgia days in honor of the communist leader under forty thousand people live there now and buildings that are almost all i guess people came from all over the country so they could work at the petrochemical plant something fascinating about a new town like this the size of athens
georgia and reconnecting everything is new and it makes you wonder about life under the opening we found ourselves gravitating toward the schools to see what it was like to be a student caricature in a new city like today this is an unusual question in the petrochemical technical high school the teacher asked twenty five year old cardboard credit engineer learning skills to be producing ms silva used to work at the plant and now as a teacher she earns a few hundred and eighty four hundred dollars a month she's the daughter of a physician who had been a large landowner in question remains whether students there's not much doubt about the future it's off to work at the factory just down the street there were already putting some time with their instructor to observe
the working version of the operators and which they practice clearing school it's bane today this is a freshman class at the same school obviously the work of moore elementary a thirty one year old edwards again as the teacher his salary of twenty five hundred lay that is hundred and forty dollars a month a surprisingly high and it may be related to his party militant rule
yeah yeah right yeah at the sheppards are sort of war of the time to they were here first and apparently see no reason to wait and it's a city in hamburg or did we were still the little farming village alone it and there were no paved roads announcing a changed much since stephen king elmore build a national hero made this is stomping grounds way back in
working it through her one is a mile and a half outside of st stephen's life and they're on their way to a fairly flagrant abuses her mother of mania and teachers a year technically this is something that's going to only been applied that in romania's another statement it's crap off of the school year isn't just in the agricultural side students come from several schools and they're going to help a local collective is being
obese being nice the job here is to help harvest corn which is late because of the drought followed by cecilia years as a collection later by regular were like at least that's the way it's supposed to go to military while well we're all doing well buy an eighth grade english class in georgia dish to number five this is their third year of english dr
oren no do you use thank you he got me working the corn
fields finished know and the boys try to rehabilitate to new ones out of the range of most complex we sell for quality cement sale income four hundred and seven la is about nine dollars for the state of the foot where it remained somewhat shy and in this case quite soggy ten miles outside of georgia dangers the monastery especially we happened to be there at the same time as the pickwick papers into cs awareness and history about i was a palpable sense of history here has of these people had seen you know in the twelfth century the turks in the seventeenth and ceo destefano in nineteen forty four german troops and this youthful exuberance was not only seeing the historical everyone who
just as you're leaving some cases and then leaving behind those who really belong and it was very clear that what we were seeing here western romanian right exuberant children were part of a booming new investor populace and the other older mania which is not a lot of that modern world at all ms bee somehow the new buildings made more sense now as they're related to the people and the production goals an ambitious boasts of what this society could do seem somewhat ephemeral as you realize
that after all it was the people and how they feel and what they think that matters the bill's second season you'll
know the oil continues with romanian president nickolay joshua school as he spoke to his people about the balance between hunger and place now you remember that in the years nineteen forty six nineteen forty seven when the bell was not worse than it was this year remain it was practically in the situation of having nothing clean you know you have a routine we have to resort to import today from
roads were certain levels years were never be repeated in the video but agriculture or socialist agriculture will be able to ensure that all times been easy for people and to assure the growth or material will cram it despite record industry strives to make the culture scrutiny of more than fifty percent of the people the needs of the countryside when unattended for a long time but now the agriculture sector of the economy is also moving forward and who are members of a food growing state and they've brought their push to the main highway to be collected and taken to market attention of the courts to collectivization of land of the nineteen fifties seems at least for the more diverse
crowd many romanians like the rest of the world to think that life on the farm has been going along its own study even caves with never a discordant moment and of course the russians would have like romania three minute as a nation going to survive in each the surface there was much unhappiness in the days when plans were being taken away from private of popular resistance force the government to modify its policies in the nineteen fifties collectivization receive even existed because not completed until nineteen sixty two the king's today only about five percent of the land is in private hands mostly in mountainous regions this is the home only
preaching or only met by accident near the town of singing he's thirty and is not an average farmer is a tractor driver for a state to me during his wife have three children ages sixteen to be in one of the houses three rooms each nearly large enough to hold the store bought furniture and anita were on the wall is his wife's handiwork and it's typical of this area that it is a television set to but enjoyed only in the evenings when power in the villages he has been allowed to carry away cornstalks from the state farm as winter feed for his cow and as a supplement his salary of sixteen underway for ninety dollars a month life in your mania is still quite primitive and by the standards of the
corps is an affluent black he was born in this village and has lived here all his life says there were something very warm and pleasant about that scene about a family and neighbors working together quietly and peacefully the pay to play it's b this is a collective farm in storage units which the minister of foreign affairs was anxious for us to
see life on the farm as well ordered residents who work here are members of the collective and apart from the money income they take their earnings didn't produce and also share in the park we were told these are brown cow burns's herbal stein's brown trout and they're kept happy with a version of muzak the collective his nine thousand acres and it has many romanian make our machines but it still needs more how much production increase in the elected president toomey is a member of the national assembly and he has been to moscow they make the public mood with a
nerve in six years about five security and the production on this is why hasn't suddenly picked up so much in the past four years where the influences before to increase their financial equal of water and he's the main might include obama and today are stop the no such a musician best at that airport stopped a militant leader such a dvd thing the intention to alter the fact that in the last four years now that the government policy is that very open with all nations and that indicate whether the cavernous nation socialist nations that they have more on that they are able to the truth is that you need people go one part of the list is more my much more migrants is a horse without saying world will
feel as optimus now because we hear they were going someplace in the future and we have some place to go and it will always get better do you think that most of those differences the result of changes could see dilapidated university's go but they regurgitate it without it the guardian reynolds about it and at the issue the day changes going to politically not going to emerge as the hospital now this is a stain on the roast potatoes and central pennsylvania north of the city of russia on how soldiers help then the harvesters they do in so many european countries again here there is little evidence of military mobilization in anticipation of action by the us we because they were going to stay on these peasants' receive a regular money wage as an industry crowd
most thousand families cultivate a small plot of land for their own you know the bunker find slow as these potatoes are either supermarket in the cities or exported to several european countries including france greece and italy where everyone on the collective comes from the same barley leads to is closed until the harvest is it it's bleak you don't need
any money oh during a road and juices eh eh others move move
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but many many many weeks a real estate company came to bucharest while we were there the first night performance attractive the socially conscious upper level of society and since romanians can't travel freely abroad they welcome artists and actors from the west was contact was especially unusual because the play the assurances the mother in law was presented in english newspaper front that's
right the challenge on and the main ingredient is was a recent universe together and works as an official guide for the national tourist agency many years behind many things but this is
the best jobs this banya has bought
a half billion the polo sneakers by the fbi i think it is interesting that despite the prominent place given clinton's works there's little demand for russian voters even romanian political literature is not ostentatious display book publishing is a major industry reading matters cheeked novels with a nationalist inch and works of poetry for the most part in
the city considered by many people as the cultural capital of or managed to a large part of the life of the city centers around the university which reflects a five hundred percent increase in higher school student in romania since before world war two there are a number of foreign students at the university including several from north vietnam but there's also a strong american influence because of the presence of an american exchange professor mother played and why all the while now whether that can ruin and the
fall if we say you of a memo this week and i said i don't like in america today is that this has turned this month that and this
is it is he says suspensions it's b it's been
nice but it's beneath his bed the peaks because we
can it's been the pittsburgh week nice job jacqueline kennedy was the bonuses this as a former mayor
and she ran home states because of laughter pretty nice i think its many things well as a
person that they can do the same with that is i think there are things they couldn't guarantee same sex with us in a situation is quite different from just about insufficient because you're taken by surprise leanne redden strong views expressed by the students are symptomatic of the public mood and they must be of some comfort in it later says was every effort has been unraveling the citizenry around the flag but he's also aware of the dangers of excessive in case the liberalization unlike czechoslovakia before august twenty first newspapers printed and the stalinist skyscraper are tightly controlled by the party and our request to see the
editors think they have the un inspectors review so we talked to the editor of the number two newspaper and stay our newspaper is not a party organ or a mass organization or what it reflects its pages our internal and foreign policy in the sense or readers can follow in our newspaper the problems of the economic construction and cultural and social problems of our country that the most important events we reflect recently and even in today's issue is the plenary session of our central committee dedicated to some of the most important problems which face our country now that is the constitution and the front of socialist entity which expresses the unity of the romanian people mrs tillman if you waited years
dispensing information this is romanian and this is its nightly news summary news is relayed from all over the world but only after careful sifting for conformity with abbas is an immediate concerns of the body in government the show whose kind of identity as the new show on a lot of these things up with another that the votes from the poet ocean mama it you know crowder faceless as always in every way reflecting a lack of confidence in its ability to master its own destiny and hoping that they will not two one time
our a hair though the country has made progress in the past decade has been economic success and has made this nation more self possessed temperature ever been the perennial question looking real small nations remain unanswered well this people be able to preserve its identity and pursuits national goal more than the strength it can muster will probably be needed to get romanian a better chance then czechoslovakia nina nice
nice i am ms baer yes pj today as romania balances on
its high wire to watanabe many romanians recalled the words of nationalistic poet andrea morris i know all weekend all brother romanian from your sleeping death knowledge never before choose your fate now as never before has proved to the world that in our veins flows the blood of the noble roman people life liberty or death shall we all cry out the alternatives may not be that extreme but what are they and what is russia likely to do and does the united states have a role in all of this now to discuss these questions we have april howard and advisor on eastern europe to four presidents and question and john c campbell for more than twenty five years a scholar and state department official concern with the air and paul's center of the university of california at davis over several years has been one of america's leading authorities on eastern europe mr herrmann yourself have been through many a recently how real do you feel is their independence how well
have they done in safeguarding their sovereignty well there's ben closely house in their government to for a number of years to try to break away from the tight control and stalin and truffaut is to your next clue minions all mourn opponent of moscow's power so they have been flying over the foot slew of three chinese the congress in order to achieve a skillful others are wise in his book so next to ensure that this love below the most of the european countries where we sing that way governor of a great many things which are all soviet line on hand right across the front here is the soviet union and soviet forces in the russian jews use them so there is a certain uncertainty which hangs over rain is independence let's listen to
ride the seminole want to do a thing which is to provide help and i think in the problem was that they got a strong man awful moment unknown woman and their opponents were the surveys i can do which witcher not provide that question were ruined they were dealing with a k i do to collect the policy will take an inward trusted typically moscow became you know themselves and the good song we ok that were like let's try to do the things that we wanted to own not trying to provoke the attack well the present soviet leadership is a little tougher than say khrushchev was the question seems to be out what is the limit of that tolerance are they trying to recoup lost ground in eastern europe or are they even trying to reconstitute the stalinist empire how do you assess their policy goals in eastern europe in romanian
yugoslavian elsewhere they were open arms is the notion of a field quite as the killers can shift in and we're in the business of joe's afraid of what might happen women and in greece limited my freedoms of my creative remember the soviet union and seven don't want to do that so theyre reacting them button and reversing they've recently as you know harshly reestablish to stand on a to kill list who show up and so whale farm also afraid to give you a checklist of it as much in the balance america stalin thought were friendly nato and the phone satellite that the dominate things the rules of church of influence than other reasons to leave both friendly neighbor we thought the correlations
considered too much american problem that we have a plan stalin from the minimum one latino women that i've come away from an overview of ambien to recall that combination of bell to kill broke up in nineteen forty eight and then maintain his independence and no return for over mosul is that again it is a question of what the past had to do was unconcerned themselves flooded and this was a fight i would say to tell those of truman to working for the fight song of the time i think is where the five of those into question the asian now lots of the time the checks were than one would have been resistance and they didn't know either i don't know enough about maybe an overstatement that was made is true of the five young man mcdonald glen ross the
minivans are not inclined to believe that they will most the feel of a country is slipping away entirely from the soldiers' block and in relation to these familiar areas of contest that the president just announced a couple days ago that he's going to europe to work with some new life into the nato alliance i wonder do you think that there's any year relationship here between nato and and eastern europe and how is it likely to affect the eastern european situation will of the judges and i can put new life into really made tones of lots of issue loans in europe so that's probably most parents feeling of song gentle relaxation trauma just doing that the checkers and i can grow nineteen forty eight comes to nineteen forty eight i think probably the reason it created nato and right now as the dangers of kung fu resident on a tombstone now or twenty
years later when scientists like an invasion put new life into action and that woman has not those know listen listen so in june and of course i think there still is aggressiveness that will exploit and they are witches wait to take advantage of this situation that the movement will the president made a statement in answer to another question that his recent press conference that seemed to imply that there's this question of national independence and sovereignty as far as we were concerned in the case of czechoslovakia for example was also an important and that we wouldn't let it into about on the sort of broader policy considerations in so far as they related throughout the necessity of getting along with the soviet union was always said that the moment but we think that will prove that with a broom justice astronomers out of the oven the importance of this
treaty up to the promise of that as wordsworth something in fact that they're in all these questions in mind though i think he's quite right houston balance is nothing we can go about for use in europe we can't talk will decide and the fear we don't agree on who to whirl and we can prove they were the holy working trying to work with the russians to control their use of nuclear power something vital important questions about what was in who or even though we know it use military force in an east european country that is in alliance with the soviet union that alas we do still retained the principle of the idea of a national sovereignty is very private politicians they have it they're entitled to and they have a right and that's got to go with them than some things move your ground laws in the nation with you know all of them
deserve and balances we knew within all nato countries but the interstate for us too given a country is to you know doing onstage with her own low production of the trouble in and fifty seven i saw a lot of these young people of hungary and more graphics so the campy new logos and government in pursuit of resettlement everyone thought we were going to help militarily and the policies of liberation which have talked to their advantage and on the other hand there's much that we can go to tell he felt he didn't get economic association was some way to wire the mission's not the ownership and they won't go that's why the cry we're strongly these cricket alliance with congress's point on our trade relations and our financial issues you used to know gas do they're driving way news is that european country back into early
on was also your own world and bring them out and i only wish that congressman realize it when they say that we come out until next quote unquote loans to go slow because of a ship the red crescent societies which is the sum of our red cross i think about four five hundred thousand dollars worth of medical supplies to norfolk none of the rest of those a sovereign country and then not change the houses level one it cost them and why wish thanks to our interest to try to get these people to do things which are not going to use it as a desperate to go what's known as the song the whistle song boxes marked you know what diseases dollars to try that only new
orleans with a tray with the stroller that no we can't force them to bend an actor when they want to know that very independence of sport is why they are one of the and moscow will we have done certain things with romania we have signed a cultural exchanges agreement which is fairly extensive is we've signed an agreement with the first i believe with an east european country on the exchanges of information on me peaceful uses of atomic energy in these small ways despite certain embargo is an ex im bank loans and what have you feel four at food purchases and we have shown some indication in our party that we are encouraging them and i know it's your suggestion them if we continue in this game and we do more and more of that let me make crystal clear that when it comes to a military question of defending the borders of the country needs to europe there we are helpless i want to help us but we're not a tentative non are close to going to interfere when the
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Series
Public Broadcast Laboratory
Episode Number
211
Episode
On a High Wire to Autonomy
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/516-3n20c4tg19
NOLA Code
PPBL
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Episode Description
Will Romania become another Czechoslovakia? On Sunday, February 9th, Public Broadcast Laboratory presents "On a High Wire to Autonomy," a report on the latest communist country to follow Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia on a rugged road toward economic independence from the Soviet Union. Before the Czech crisis erupted last summer, PBL sent a film crew to Romania to document that agricultural country's struggle to industrialize in the face of Kremlin disapproval. This was the first Western film crew permitted to travel in the country without an official escort. Last fall, PBL executive producer Richard Richter and filmmaker Richard Leiterman covered Romania from the Iron Gates on the Danube to pleasure spas on the Black Sea, assembling a film portrait of the country. Long a major breadbasket for the socialist camp, Romania is trying to develop an industrial base in order to be less narrowly dependent on the USSR for manufactured goods. The broadcast focuses on two projects which could bring the Kremlin's wrath down on Nicolae Ceausescu (Chow-SHESS-koo), head of state: the steel mill a Galati, a special symbol of defiance because it is near the Russian border; and the mammoth hydroelectric power dam being build jointly by Romania and Yugoslavia at the Iron Gates of the Danube, where the boundaries of the two countries meet. The PBL episode illustrates how the Romanians welcome Western influences as the nation moves toward self-sufficiency. The episode depicts a class in U.S. management techniques conducted by an American management expert; a British trade fair organized by 400 British enterprises; a performance of D.H. Lawrence play by an English troupe; a concert by a touring jazz group form the University of Illinois; and a university seminar on Robert Frost conducted by an exchange professor from Portland State University. Ranging the countryside, the PBL report shows Ceausescu speaking at a harvest festival about the meaning of industrialization to Romania's future. Romania already trades with some 50 foreign countries, making it less a customer for Soviet industry alone. PBL reports that Romania enjoys a rate of economic growth second only to Japan's, the fastest growing of the world's economy. "On a High Wire to Autonomy," the Public Broadcast Laboratory report on Romania was produced for PBL by Richard Richter, a PBL executive producer. Richter, a native New Yorker, joined Public Broadcast Laboratory early in 1968. He was the producer of PBL's acclaimed analysis of the report of the President's Commission of Civil Disorders. He had previously been deputy director of the Peace Corps in Kenya for two years. Before going to Nairobi to take charge of the Peace Corps' educational and agricultural programs in Kenya, Richter served from 1963 to 1965 at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, evaluating Peace Corps programs in Africa, Afghanistan, Turkey and Venezuela. Richter was with CBS New in New York from 1959 to 1963, rising from writer to producer. In 1960 he spent sabbatical studying on a CBS News fellowship as a graduate student at Columbia University. Before joining CBS News, Richter jaws assistant city editor at the New York World-Telegram, where he started as a reporter in 1953. He had worked as a report on Newsday, the Long Island daily, for two years previously. He joined The New York Times after graduating from Queens College in 1951. Averell Harriman appears on Public Broadcast Laboratory Sunday evening, February 9th, at the conclusion of PBL's report on Romania, "On a High Wire to Autonomy." Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and former Chief U.S. delegate at the Paris Peace Talks, Harriman is interviewed by Paul Zinner, expert on Eastern Europe and writer and narrator of "On a High Wire of Autonomy." (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1969-02-09
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Economics
Global Affairs
War and Conflict
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:28:35
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Credits
Director: Leiterman, Richard
Executive Producer: Richter, Richard
Guest: Harriman, Averell
Host: Zinner, Paul
Narrator: Zinner, Paul
Speaker: Ceausescu, Nicolae
Writer: Zinner, Paul
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Chicago: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 211; On a High Wire to Autonomy,” 1969-02-09, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 18, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3n20c4tg19.
MLA: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 211; On a High Wire to Autonomy.” 1969-02-09. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 18, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3n20c4tg19>.
APA: Public Broadcast Laboratory; 211; On a High Wire to Autonomy. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3n20c4tg19