Word: balkanize
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...Balkan countries are making an attempt to change the old script. Last week, in an act that in effect ended a 31-year undeclared state of war, Greece and Albania established normal diplomatic relations by exchanging ambassadors. As the price of reconciliation, Athens apparently dropped its 100-year-old claim to North Epirus, a large chunk of southern Albania populated by many Greeks. The two countries, which since 1940 had icily ignored one another and kept their mutual border tightly closed, are now expected to undertake joint ventures in promoting trade and tourism...
Died. Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, 91, the Nazi Blitzkriegmeister who for a time was one of Hitler's favorite field commanders; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The stony-faced strategist engineered the fall of Greece and Yugoslavia, earning the title "Balkan Conqueror." Though Hitler personally selected him in 1942 to take command of German forces in the Caucasus, List concluded that the Russian campaign was futile and was sacked. Given a life sentence as a war criminal, he was released after only four years in prison...
Mystical Embrace. For Rosenzweig, nothing ever did lead back to the circuit of his old academic life. The long, lonely hours in trenches and on Balkan mountaintops gave him time to think, and out of it emerged The Star of Redemption. In it everything came together: his disillusionment with Hegelian idealism, travels to the brink of Christianity, his profoundly mystical embrace of Judaism...
...Especially with the Balkan countries, and with all countries of the United Nations...
...unusual in the U.S. these days. Once in the air, passengers can never be sure where they are going to land, especially in winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot disappeared, the agent said it was his day off, and the Hungarian airport staff declined to help the passengers. After eleven hours of negotiation, some passengers wangled transit visas and a car for the 160-mile drive to Vienna...