Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mother Teresa was born in 1910 to Albanian parents and baptized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now Skoplje, Yugoslavia. Even at the age of twelve she wanted to "go out and give the love of Christ." By the time she was 18, Agnes had joined the Irish branch of Loreto nuns who were working in Calcutta, where she soon began teaching geography at St. Mary's High School...
...report said 200 were known dead in Yugoslavia and quoted the Albanian News Agency's account, which reported 35 persons killed and 50 injured in Albania, a southern neighbor...
Most of my college hockey experience comes from watching RPI during interludes at my Albanian (N.Y., not Europe) grandparents'. The names of Serra, Martinelli and other former Engineer frontliners may not ring a bell, but Harvard skaters remember Stoyanovich (who, incidentally, has been drafted by the Islanders) all too well, for it was he who blasted one of his patented slapshots past Wade Lau to defeat the Crimson last November...
...angrily cut off all aid to Albania, which until recently was China's sole ideological ally in Europe. Two weeks ago, the last of 513 Chinese military advisers and technicians departed from Albania, leaving behind 51 uncompleted aid projects, a deserted Chinese restaurant and the shambles of Chinese-Albanian friendship, which Chairman Mao described only two years ago as "inexhaustible and truly invincible." The origins of the quarrel lie in Albania's hostility to China's policy of rapprochement with the U.S. and the Third World and to Peking's warming relations with Albania...
...CHINA'S ENEMIES. The revisionist leading clique of the Soviet Union and all the other leading cliques of renegades and scabs of various shades are mere dust heaps while you [the Albanian Communist Party] are a lofty mountain, tower to the skies. They are slaves and accomplices of imperialism . . . The U.S. imperialists and all other such harmful insects have already created their own gravediggers; the day of their burial cannot...