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AUGUST  27, 1968  
THIS ROMANIAN  INITIATIVE  IS  OMINOUS.  WE  SHOULD  THINK  
HARD  ABOUT  IT.  

USUN 6298 
1. CONFIRMING BALL-RUSK TELECON, ROMANIAN CHARGE DUMA TOLD MISSION OFFICIAL AUGUST 26, THAT MANESCU HAD COME TO NEW YORK NOT AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT BUT RATHER AS ROMANAIN FORMIN; DUMA IMMEDIATELY ADDED, "YOU KNOW SOVIETS ARE MASSING TROOPS ON ROMANIA'S BORDERS." HE SAID MANESCU WILL SEE SECRETARY GENERAL AUG 27 AND MAY GO WASHINGTON TO SEE SECRETARY RUSK. 
2~ DUMA SAID HE WAS SURE US GOV COULD PREVENT INVASION OF ROMANIA IF IT TOLD SOVIETS THAT THEY HAD GONE FAR ENOUGH. WHEN MISSION OFFICIAL POINTED OUT TO DUMA THAT US COULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO THREATEN USSR, DUMA SAID, US SHOULD INTERRUPT ITS POLICY OF DETENTE IN ORDER CONVINCE THE SOVIETS US NOT ACQUIESCING IN PRESENT SOVIET POLICY. DUMA SAID IF ROMANIA GOES, YUGOSLAVIA WOULD BE NEXT ON SOVIET LIST. HE EMPHASIZED THAT ROMANIAN GOV DETERMINED TO FIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ANY INVASION AND WILL NOT RESTRICT ITSELF TO PASSIVE RESISTANCE. 
3. BALL, ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, SEEING MANESCU 12:30 PM 
AUG 27. 
DIG: 271418Z AUG 68 
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