Search Details

Word: albanians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...bowling, a perfect score is 300. In a perfect baseball game, no one gets on base. Last week Communist Albania accomplished an astonishing record: almost perfect parliamentary elections. Every one of the country's 1,830,653 registered voters cast a ballot, and all candidates selected by the Albanian Labor Party won 100% of the votes counted. But alas, a single ballot was declared invalid by officials. Wait till next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albania: What Could Be More Perfect? | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Although Hoxha died last year, his isolationist policies still guide the current leadership, at least on the surface. In a speech to the Albanian Communist Party Congress earlier this month, Hoxha's handpicked successor, Ramiz Alia, 61, said, "Our party will apply his teachings with courage and wisdom." Yet even before Hoxha's death, Albania had begun to crack open its doors, and today there are signs that the eagle may be ready at long last to spread its wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albania the Eagle Spreads Its Wings | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...longer are the people totally cut off from the outside. Their main exposure to the West comes through tuning in to foreign radio and TV broadcasts. Young people wear blue jeans and Italian sunglasses. As Albanian society grows younger -- the majority of the population is now under 30 -- some social problems, including crime, are on the rise, and there are signs of disaffection with Hoxhaism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albania the Eagle Spreads Its Wings | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Tirane began to accept that fact by increasing diplomatic contacts. Albania now has formal relations with 104 countries, double that of the late '70s. And at the party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals with West European firms to obtain factory and telecommunications equipment, as well as diesel trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albania the Eagle Spreads Its Wings | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, visiting Ottawa, stayed in close touch with Washington through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next