Titlebook: Romania Versus the United States; Diplomacy of the Abs Roger Kirk,Mircea Raceanu Book 19941st edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nat

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Human Rights Take Center Stage 1986,the seriousness of the congressional situation vis-à-vis Romania and the need for some gestures on his part to meet American concerns. The first was Rabbi Arthur Schneier, head of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation and a frequent visitor to Romania, whom Ceau?escu greatly respected for his world pr

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Whitehead Tries to Make a New Start 1986,bassador’s tenure. These are formalized in a letter from the secretary of state to that ambassador. Secretary Shultz’s letter to Kirk, despatched in April 1986, described current U.S. priorities for relations with Romania.

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Frictions Mount 1987, Preferences, the program that gives developing countries tariff advantages for some of their exports to the United States. Romania was one of the countries so favored. In 1984, over the objections of the administration, Congress had renewed the program with an amendment stating that to be eligible

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Back from the Brink 1987,re difficult by the pending legislation, passed by the House on April 30 as a Trade Act amendment, that would suspend MFN for Romania for six months. The argument within the administration turned on the humanitarian effect of denying MFN. Totu’s statement of May 1 that there would be no emigration f

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Rupture 1988,ed it, was to review the progress in relations since his November 1986 visit, to examine ways to move ahead, and, where appropriate, to give momentum to ongoing projects or the resolution of current issues. The Department of State cast the trip as a whole in positive terms; relations with Eastern Eu

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From Bad to Worse 1988,FN but primarily for two more basic reasons: Ceau?escu’s repressive internal policies became increasingly offensive to the United States, while his independent foreign policy was becoming decreasingly important. As Gorbachev adopted many of the “heretical” foreign policy positions long held by Ceau?

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Epilogue: Some Lessons,and annoyance on both sides. As reform gained ground in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Ceau?escu regime became more repellent and less useful to the United States. A deterioration in relations between the United States and Romania was inevitable.