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...self-reliance, total party control and a suspicion of outsiders that led him to reject both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and to feud with China and Yugoslavia. He summed up his view of his country in 1967, when he banned all religious activities: "The only religion an Albanian needs is Albania...
Hoxha's death comes at a time when Albania has been making economic overtures to the West. Last year trade accords were signed with Italy, Greece, Turkey and Austria. Albanian relations with Moscow are likely to remain strained, a fact that was emphasized last week when Albania rejected the Soviets' message of condolence. "We will have nothing to do with them," a spokesman for the Albanian embassy in Vienna told Reuters. Hoxha broke with Moscow over Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization drive in the early 1960s. He later accepted $5 billion in economic assistance from China, but that relationship soured...
...Woodward as a user and sometime dealer of heroin, Smith was able to hotfoot it to Canada, where she is still fighting extradition. Woodward is so absorbed in writing about Belushi's demons that he has barely a moment to suggest where they might have originated. Evoking an Albanian father who ran a couple of restaurants in Chicago and was never around for holidays "because they were often the biggest days in the restaurant business" is hardly an adequate way to measure the depths of Belushi's kamikaze Thanatos...
...your introductory story on the Olympics [SPECIAL REPORT, Jan. 30] you refer to the vermin at the new Sarajevo Holiday Inn as a tribe of rats with the instincts of Albanian terrorists. This inexcusable and inaccurate reference to Albanians demonstrates your writer's insensitivity toward a people who have no historical reputation for terrorism...
...capture movement too fast to be seen by the naked eye influenced two generations of photojournalists; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. "Time could truly be made to stand still," Mili once said. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." During his 45-year association with LIFE, the Albanian-born Mili did just that in thousands of stop-action pictures, among them one of Pablo Picasso using a penlight in his darkened studio to carve a drawing out of thin...