rsonnel, 195, 213, 219-220;
service, 7, 112, 211, 212;
volunteers, 220

Military Achievement Exhibit: 224

militia: 194, 195-197, 200, 203, 204, 206, 221

minerals (_see also_ coal; iron; natural gas; oil): 36-37, 275

ministries and ministers (_see also_ Council of Ministers; individual
ministries): 115, 119, 120, 133;
economic, 231, 234, 282, 283

Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Industry and Waters: 243, 244, 259, 261,
262

Ministry of the Armed Forces: 7, 121, 145, 195, 208, 212, 213, 214,
215, 217;
minister, 119, 121, 213-214

Ministry of Defense: 211

Ministry of Education: 75, 80-82, 84, 86

Ministry of Finance: 237, 241, 242, 243, 247

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 162, 163;
minister, 119

Ministry of Foreign Trade: 162, 163, 248

Ministry of Internal Affairs: ix, 145, 195, 196, 208, 217, 221;
minister, 119, 121, 195

Ministry of Justice: 122, 123, 203, 207;
minister, 122

Ministry of Technical Material Supply and Control of the Management of
Fixed Assets: 236

Ministry of Transportation: 43, 46

Ministry of Youth Problems: 147;
minister, 200

minority ethnic groups (_see also_ individual ethnic groups): vii, 3-4,
49-50, 54-55, 91, 135, 139, 149, 150-151, 166;
education, 78, 88-89;
rights, 111

missiles: 216

Mobutu, Joseph, president of Zaire: 172

Moldavia: vii, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 254;
cultural, 95, 96, 99, 103, 104;
history, 3, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 33, 37, 67, 74;
population, 41, 54

monarchy, constitutional: 19, 23

mountains (_see also_ individual ranges): ix, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36,
41, 253, 254

_Munca_: 178

Muntenia: 31

music: 100-101, 184;
education, 75, 83

Muslims (_see also_ Islam): 4

Mures-Magyar. _See_ Hungarian Autonomous Region

National Bank of the Romanian Socialist Republic: viii, 242, 243, 245, 246

National Center for Cinematography: 189

National Democratic Front: 22, 23

National Peasant Party: 19, 22, 23

National Popular Party: 23

National Renaissance Party: 20

National Union of Agricultural Production Cooperatives: 133, 259

nationalism: 2, 3, 7, 9, 14, 25, 56, 67, 92, 97, 102, 104, 129, 130,
132, 154

nationalization: 24, 55, 58, 110, 244

natural gas: ix, 29, 30, 36, 37, 47, 275, 276, 278, 288

navy: ix, 7, 48, 211, 213, 214, 216, 221

Nazis: 9, 19, 20-21, 37, 54, 157, 168

Negruzzi, Constantine: 10