Rumania ‘defence cash’ for families
NZPA-Reuter Bucharest
Rumania yesterday risked the anger of its Warsaw Pact allies by deciding to channel funds earmarked for next year’s defence budget into increased family allowances. The country’s top pol-icy-making body, the political executive committee, agreed in Bucharest to increase family allowances by millions of dollars next year.
The official Agerpres news agency reported that the family allowance increase would come from reducing next year’s defence budget.
The Rumanian President (Mr Nicolae Ceausescu) has provoked new strains in the seven-nation Warsaw Pact by saying he refused to agree to increase defence outlays at a Pact summit meeting in Moscow last month.
Diplomatic observers said the decision was the first concrete result of Mr Ceausescu’s pledge, on his return from Moscow, to put the nation’s material welfare above defence spending. They noted that the family allowance increase was small compared to Rumania’s 1979 defence budget.
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