NOTES: COL PRINT LOCATION: BUCHAREST, RUMANIA TITLE: HUA BUCHAREST SERVICED DATE: 08/17/78 NO: LNC 95764 DATE SHOT: 08/16/78 LENGTH: 30FT SECONDS: 48 SOUND: MUTE DATE OF ARRIVAL:
NOTES: COL PRINT
LOCATION: BUCHAREST, RUMANIA
TITLE: HUA BUCHAREST
SERVICED DATE: 08/17/78
NO: LNC 95764
DATE SHOT: 08/16/78
LENGTH: 30FT
SECONDS: 48
SOUND: MUTE
DATE OF ARRIVAL:
FILM SHOWS: CHAIRMAN HUA AND DELGATION MEETING WITH PRESIDENT CEAUSESCU AND DELEGATION FOR FORMAL TALKS AFTER ARRIVING IN BUCHAREST
LEAD IN: CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY CHAIRMAN, HUA KUO-FENG, ARRIVED WEDNESDAY (16/8) ON A FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO INDEPENDENT - MINDED RUMANIA, ON THE FIRST STOP OF AN HISTORIC TOUR THAT MARKS CHINA'S RE-OPENING TO THE WESTERN WORLD.
MORE THAN 500,000 RUMANIANS LINED THE STREETS OF BUCHAREST TO CHEER THE AFFABLE HUA, WHO APPEARED PLEASED WITH THE WELCOME, REACTING ESPECIALLY WELL TO THE KISSES OF GREETING AND EVEN DANCING IN A TRADITIONAL RUMANIAN CIRCLE-DANCE.
IT WAS THE FIRST TRIP TO EUROPE BY A CHINESE LEADER SINCE CHAIRMAN MAO WENT TO MOSCOW IN 1957.
FEET R/SECS
10 16 MS HUA ENTERS, SITS, PAN CEAUSESCU
14 22 MCU HUA
17 27 MS CHINESE DELEGATION, PAN RUMANIANS
19 30 MS CEAUSESCU.
24 38 MS CEAUSESCU.
26 42 MCU HUA
30 48 MS CONFERENCE TABLE
COMMENTARY: FROM BUCHAREST, HUA WILL FLY TO BELGRADE ON 21 AUGUST, FOR A WEEK-LONG STAY IN YUGOSLAVIA. HE WILL MEET WITH PRESIDENT TITO THERE. RELATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND CHINA HAVE IMPROVED VASTLY SINCE TITO'S TRIP TO PEKING LAST SUMMER. ON HIS WAY HOME, HUA WILL ALSO VISIT IRAN, A MAJOR OIL PRODUCING NATION WHICH SHARES A BORDER WITH THE SOVIET UNION.
HUA'S TOUR ALSO COINCIDES WITH THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOVIET-LED INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, WHICH RUMANIA DID NOT TAKE PART IN.
CEAUSESCU, WHO VISITED PEKING IN MAY, STAGED A TOP HONOURS WELCOME FOR HUA. WITH THE RIFT BETWEEN CHINA AND THE RUSSIANS INTENSIFYING, THE MAVERICK RUMANIAN LEADER MAY BE TRYING TO SOLIDFY HIS NATION'S POSITION AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE, WITH GOOD RELATIONS WITH ALL STATES. IN THE WAKE OF CHINA RECENT TREATY WITH JAPAN, THE SOVIET REACTION TO THIS TRIP INTO, AS IT WERE, THEIR OWN BACKYARD, WILL NOT LIKELY BE FAVOURABLE.