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...radio monitoring laboratory in Britain, the mutiny had been staged by "officers and some other crew members" who succeeded in taking command of their vessel for a time. But then the uprising was crushed, and the second sub entered Sogne Fjord to give help. The defeated mutineers, said Albania's Radio Tirana in a 16-minute broadcast that cited Moscow sources, were transferred to the second sub, and both vessels left the fjord, heading for the Baltic. The broadcast suggested that the uprising posed special danger to European security because of the nuclear arms aboard...
Norwegian authorities reacted cautiously to the report. Albania, after all, is no friend of Russia's. But preliminary analysis of the broadcast's claims indicated some circumstantial support. For one thing, there had been earlier Norwegian reports of six red rockets being launched from the fjord; defense spokesmen said that such pyrotechnics are a normal method of communication between submarines wishing to avoid radio contact. For another, Norwegian officials disclosed that patrols had made strong sonar contacts with at least one submarine trying to leave the fjord on the night that Radio Tirana asserts both subs did depart...
...airplane, and I see a great potential in China for aircraft of all types." Miller expects to see some of the 707s flown by the Chinese to distant countries. Peking either has already successfully bargained or is known to be negotiating for reciprocal air rights with France, Albania, Ethiopia and Pakistan; at present China's only foreign flights are to major cities in five neighboring countries...
Smaller Soviet military-assistance groups have been kicked out of Indonesia, Ghana, Albania, the Congo and the Sudan. Seldom since the Cuban missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
...state cannot replace private owners in the management of enterprises. Enterprises must manage themselves." They did efficiently enough in 1970 to lift "social product"-the Yugoslav term closest to gross national product-to $14 billion, a 6.7% rise after discounting inflation factors. Among European Communist countries, only Bulgaria and Albania had a lower total output, but none had such a rapid growth rate...