Word: albania
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...Winds of Madness." There was speculation last week that Red China's last friend in Europe was having second thoughts. Albania's party press has avoided any mention of the Cultural Revolution-perhaps because it could not bring itself to say anything good about...
...built in 1961, the number of East German escapes to the West has been cut by more than half, and the figure keeps dropping almost every month. The rest of Eastern Europe cannot boast the same success. Last year escapes from Yugoslavia, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania rose more than 20%, and so far this year they are up another...
...Members: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Russia. Albania is still a nominal member, though since 1960 it has sided with Red China and no longer attends Warsaw Pact meetings...
...trial for leading a revolt against the government, and the now-dominant army leaders huffily withdrew their ambassador to Peking for "consultation." Peking has fallen into disrepute in most of Africa, where it has failed to produce on its big promises of aid. Even hard-lining, Peking-backing Albania (which Chou En-lai called "the flower garden of socialism") is showing symptoms of a turn politically and economically away from China and toward its Eastern European neighbors...
...Khrushchevite revisionists are actively trying to isolate People's China and surround it with a ring of fire." The voice last week was Peking's, speaking through its puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent...