Word: albania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albania, an isolated, mountainous country of 2.9 million people, is a place of bleak statistics. It is Europe's poorest nation, and one of the world's most closed societies. Its harsh internal policies place it among the last bastions of Stalinism. This is the legacy of Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hod-ja), Albania's leader since 1944, who died last week from heart disease at 76. For more than 40 years Hoxha kept his tiny country on what he considered the only true path to Communism: self-reliance, total party control and a suspicion of outsiders that...
Hoxha's successor is Ramiz Alia, 59, who was named the new party chief on Saturday. Most observers believe that Alia, Albania's President since 1982, has been the effective ruler since Hoxha began to withdraw from public view last year because of poor health and a desire to add to his published works, which at his death ran to 39 volumes...
Hoxha's death comes at a time when Albania has been making economic overtures to the West. Last year trade accords were signed with Italy, Greece, Turkey and Austria. Albanian relations with Moscow are likely to remain strained, a fact that was emphasized last week when Albania rejected the Soviets' message of condolence. "We will have nothing to do with them," a spokesman for the Albanian embassy in Vienna told Reuters. Hoxha broke with Moscow over Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization drive in the early 1960s. He later accepted $5 billion in economic assistance from China, but that relationship soured...
Through the 3500 aluminum disks and about 22.500 texts, which document the epic poetry of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bosnia, it is possible to piece together the origins of the earliest oral literature which survives today--the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer...
...answer is b, just one of the nuggets to be found in a statistical analysis, released by the U.S. Mission to the U.N. last week, of votes on contested issues before the General Assembly in 1983. Albania voted with the U.S. on only 4% of the votes studied; Laos, Viet Nam and Mozambique produced only slightly higher percentages. The study, requested by Congress last year, lends statistical support to the Reagan Administration's charge that the U.S. is isolated in an organization in which tiny nations that receive U.S. aid vote against it with impunity...