Word: balkanized
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...Green Bus. An observation team from the U.N.'s Balkan Commission flew into loannina last week and, accompanied by reporters, started for the fighting zone in a pea-green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped...
...task was obvious: compression (as Balkan Communists now call the elimination of political undesirables...
...agenda items; Russia and the West had not reached agreement on a single issue that would help make the peace. Russia announced that she would boycott the "Little Assembly" (created to function between regular assemblies), the commission established to supervise the Korean elections, the establishment of a permanent Balkan Commission. Most of the 70 days' work was a propaganda brouhaha...
...Legation in the U.S. cautiously states that she is "in her early 50s"). More certain is the number of years she has spent in exile or "underground" (15) or in jail (6). For Ana, after a fling at teaching school and studying medicine, turned to the precarious business of Balkan politics...
...Lake Success committee room last week, the U.S. won majority support for a Balkan commission. But in Athens, U.S. missions knew that the crisis might easily arrive before the commission. Said one U.S. Army officer, back from a long look at the frontiers: "We've got to make up our minds damned quick whether we are going to fire or fall back...