Romania (General Union of
Trade Unions). Official organization incorporating all labor unions
of blue- and white-collar workers. Estimated membership in 1972 was
4.6 million.

UTC--Uniunea Tineretului Comunist (Union of Communist Youth). Official
organization that functions as the youth branch of the PCR (_q.v._).
Membership open to young people between ages fifteen and twenty-six.
Membership estimated in early 1972 at 2.5 million.

Warsaw Treaty Organization--Formal name for Warsaw Pact. Military
alliance of communist countries founded in 1955, with headquarters
in Moscow. The Soviet minister of defense is traditionally the
supreme commander of Warsaw Pact forces. Members are Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the
Soviet Union.

INDEX

abortion: 39, 57

administrative divisions: viii, 38

adult education: 7, 86-87

Africa: 156, 163, 168, 171, 172, 182, 183

Agerpres. _See_ Romanian Press Agency

Agricultural Bank: 261, 267

Agricultural Mechanization Enterprises: 262-264, 267

agriculture (_see also_ collective farms; livestock): v, viii, 8, 30, 31,
36, 41, 227, 229, 231, 232, 233, 236, 237, 241;
Commission, 117;
education, 76, 85, 87, 145;
labor, viii, 61, 233, 253, 262, 264-266;
production, 269-273, 274

aid foreign (_see also_ Council for Mutual Economic Assistance): 26, 103,
167, 169, 279;
military, 211-212, 216, 223

air forces: ix, 7, 211, 213, 214, 215-216, 219, 221, 224

air transport: ix, 45, 46-47, 196, 216

Albania: 27, 39, 42, 158, 166, 167, 172

Alecsandri, Vasile: 105

Alexandrescu, Grigore: 104

Allied Control Commission: 21, 24

Allies. _See_ World War I; World War II

Aman, Theodor: 97

Anti-Comintern Pact: 21

anti-Semitism: 17, 19, 56

anti-subversion. _See_ counter-subversion

Antonescu, Ion: 21, 175

Apostol, Gheorghe: 130, 131, 134, 136

Arad: 44, 193

archaeology: 94, 95, 99

architecture: 76, 99-100

Arghezi, Tudor: 106

aristocracy: 6, 12, 56, 75

armed forces (_see also_ military): ix, 7, 15, 16, 119, 120, 121, 133,
161, 200, 203, 211-216, 221-227;
command, 112, 116, 173, 213;
training, 220-221, 223

army (_see also_ ground force): ix, 7

arts and the artists: 7, 91, 92-94, 135, 152, 180;
education, 76, 81, 84, 85, 97;
union, 135

Asachi, Gheorghe: 104

Asia: 156, 163, 168, 17