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Article: Key U.S. Official in Romania To Confer on Human Rights; State Department Warns of `Backsliding'
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- January 31, 1990
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A senior U.S. human-rights official began talks today with
leaders of Romania's provisional government as part of the first
visit here by a high-level State Department official since the
December revolution that toppled Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
and apparently ended decades of totalitarian rule.
A Western diplomat said that the visit here by Richard Schifter,
assistant secretary of state for humanitarian affairs, had been
planned for some time and that it was coincidence it began just one
day after the State Department expressed concern over the decision by
the Communist-dominated provisional regime to enter candidates in
upcoming free elections.
"There should be no backsliding ...