PMag v05n3p08 -- Canada's CANDU Sale to Romania
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Written by Wally Keeler who is with a Toronto computer firm and visits Hungary often

Canada's CANDU Sale to Romania

Peace Magazine, Jun/July, 1989

The Socialist Republic of Romania, because of its "maverick" foreign politics, has become a favorite son to Western governments and some peace activists. Yet Canada's sale of CANDUs to Romania aids the military intentions of Europe's most cruel dictatorship and harms Canada's working class.
Romania signed the CANDU contract's nonproliferation clauses - but its signature may be as worthless as the one it affixed to the strengthened Helsinki Accords in Vienna last January. (It promptly and publicly disavowed obedience to those clauses.)
Romania has a policy of forced cultural assimilation for the 2.5 million Hungarians in Transylvania. Hungary's protests against the persecution escalated to tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomatic staff. Last autumn, Romania held sabre-rattling military manoeuvres along the Hungarian border.
Weapons Potential?
Hungary's Foreign Minister, Matyas Szuros, on a radio program, described a meeting between the leaders of Hungary and Romania in August, 1988. Ceausescu had boasted that "Romania already has such a strong industry that it is able to make any kind of weapon." The esteemed Hungarian journalist, Istvan Csurka, who understands this oblique message, advised the Hungarian people that they were being threatened by the "atombomba."1
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