This issue contains content on China's efforts to cooperate with Romania and Czechoslovakia in the fields of science and technology, preventing the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas, water irrigation works and fertilizer accumulation campaign, development of advanced agricultural tools, supporting higher education students participation in scientific research for businesses and enterprises, strengthening middle school and normal schools anti-rightist thought curriculum, and heating subsidies for work units.

Treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of West Germany into NATO.

Ji Denggui and Ilie Verdeț discuss bilateral relations between China and Romania, nuclear proliferation and diarmament, Soviet-American relations, Comecon, European security, US policy toward Taiwan, Japan-Soviet relations, and economic development in China and Romania, among other topics.

The Polish Embassy in Romania reports on trends in Romanian foreign relations. There are signs of rapprochement with the other socialist countries in the Warsaw Pact after Romania reversed course to join Comecon. Yet Ceaușescu continued to court China and the United States as well.

Prior to his visit to Bucharest, Todor Zhivkov meets Soviet representatives in Sofia in an attempt to co-ordinate Bulgarian policy toward Romania with the Soviet government. They discuss Soviet-Romanian relations, role of Romania in the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Romania in the Warsaw Pact and COMECON, Romania and the Non-Aligned Movement, Sino-Soviet relations, etc.