Word: albania
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...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...
...that China's Red Guards have demonstrated their ability to stir up trouble, why shouldn't Red China's European counterpart, Albania, have its own Red Guards? So, last week Albanian youths streamed into the 'mountains as "voluntary activists" to force collectivization on the 10% of the country that still can plant its own crops. Albania's Communist Party has begun burning books, slashing paintings, purging comrades as "decadent" and "soft " breaking down the old habits of the peasants." Albania's Ked Guards already number 10000 but that is just the beginning. Premier Mehmet...
...carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
...Further, he has suggested several more substantive steps: a mutual reduction of forces in Central Europe, a treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons, a pact governing the peaceful uses of space, a tariff reduction for the Communist bloc, and the lifting of bans on travel by Americans in Albania, North Viet Nam, North Korea, Cuba and Red China...