Word: balkanize
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...Russia's oil production, concentrated vulnerably in the Caspian Sea area, north of Iran, and a markedly weak feature of its industrial system, is expected to top 35 million metric tons this year. (U.S. production: 262 million.) The Balkan satellites may divert two or three million more tons to Russia. The rich oilfields of Iran and Iraq would double Russia's oil output, but the Soviet Union would meet stiff U.S. and British opposition if it tried to seize them...
...setting, the movie creates an unusually convincing mythical Balkan state: modern Vosnia, whose beautiful mountain scenery, totalitarian bosses and strained political posture clearly suggest Tito's Yugoslavia. Its natives display the reflexes conditioned in a police state, speak the Vosnian language,* a linguistic mishmash cleverly concocted out of Latin odds and Slavic ends...
...certainly be more joy in the Kremlin if this sinner were bumped off than if 99 other states threw themselves under the Soviet paws. But Tito grew up in a tough school; he is more cat than mouse himself, and it will take the Red army itself, not the Balkan satellites, to catch him. (Currently, the Bulgarian army is mobilized and stamping its feet on Tito's border. If Russian forces move in the same direction, the U.S. may have another Korea decision to make...
Trouble on the Turn. On the first turn a big lumbering colt named Balkan slithered off to his right, carrying Middleground and C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble outside with him. That left a hole on the rail wide enough for a cavalry charge, and Eddie Arcaro, who had not planned to go to the front so early, gave Hill Prince the gun. By the time they straightened away on the backstretch, the Prince had the race in his pocket...
...Provost also revealed the appointment of Robert L. Wolff '36, associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, to a similar post here. He is an authority on Byzantine and Balkan history...