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...even predictable feminine excitement. The congress went into secret session, hoping to hammer out its differences behind closed doors. The attempt failed. When the majority agreed on an appeal for peace and against the arms race, but failed to denounce the U.S. or NATO, the Chinese delegates and their Albanian allies voted against, and remained stubbornly seated while the crowd of 5,000 jumped to their feet, waved handkerchiefs and clapped rhythmically in a 50-minute demonstration. China's Madame Yang then mounted the podium to explain her vote, but was drowned out by angry shouts and finally ruled...
Yugoslavia diplomatic relations with Albania are "all but broken," a press attache from the Yugoslavian embassy said Wednesday night. He cited Albanian guerrillas operating in Yugoslavia and a barbed-wire frontier as two causes of the tense situation...
Harsh Words. By the laws of Communist meteorology, when Soviet-Yugoslav relations get warmer, Soviet-Chinese relations automatically grow more turbulent. Last week the Red Chinese and their distant Albanian allies renewed their blistering criticism of Tito and that "modern revisionist," Khrushchev. Peking was especially angry over Tito's interview with Columnist Pearson, in which Tito called the Chinese warmongers. Rising to Peking's defense, the Albanians lashed out at Khrushchev for agreeing to sell MIG jet fighters to India, for possible use against "innocent" Chinese...
...their touring car was a member of the secret police. To divert the guide's attention while a photographer took pictures. Behr (in fractured German) tried to engage him in conversation. Once, when the guide mentioned that he had translated Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage, into Albanian, Behr diverted him by describing at length a meeting with Brecht in Paris in 1953. Behr found the guide, who had never been outside Albania, almost pathetically curious about the outside world. And for those curious in turn about Albania, the hardest place to survive in all Europe. see Behr...
...duty, the Chinese keep strictly to themselves. They eat in a separate dining room at the Italian-built Dajti Hotel, live in a parklike embassy compound that is constantly surrounded by guards. The latest status symbols in Tirana, worn by Albanian Communist officials who have journeyed to Red China, are a plain beige cloth cap of the type preferred by Mao Tse-tung, and aviator-type dark sunglasses, also the rage in Peking...