Russia invaded Czechoslovakia this year and Ceaucescu was the ‘hero’ in acting belligerent toward the Soviet Union. Relations with America were positive and Pr. Nixon visited Bucharest. There was a sense of some form of normalcy returning after the traumatic first 15-20 years of Communism. The new Intercontinental hi-rise hotel became a symbol of Romania’s new-felt international status – though filled with securitate people. Twenty years later the location in the photo adjacent to University Square would witness some of the worst violence of the December 1989 ‘revolution.’