Word: albania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again Bond matches wits with nasty men and lips with shady ladies. Once again his work takes him to a bunch of tony vacation spots (the Dolomites, Corfu, Spain, Albania, Moscow in winter). Once again the fate of the world is threatened by-what is it this time?-a nuclear-sub tracking system that has fallen into enemy hands, and can be saved by one lone agent working for an empire over which the sun set long...
...conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito hurled the first challenge to East bloc unity; his country was ceremoniously expelled in 1948 from the Cominform, the Moscow-dominated alliance of Communist states, for pursuing an independent foreign policy. Thirteen years later, Albania effectively withdrew from the Warsaw Pact...
...methods of controlling pollution seemed remote. But five years ago, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) decided to try. Last week at a conference in Athens that climaxed a remarkable feat of scientific diplomacy, the U.N. team won the approval of all but one of the Mediterranean nations (xenophobic Albania) for a treaty outlining ways to clean...
...alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although economically and militarily tied to the Warsaw Pact, since 1966 has tried to go its own way in diplomatic matters. North Korea tends to play Moscow and Peking against...