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...Agca, there have been vague reports that one or another Soviet-bloc intelligence agency might have been involved in the crime. With an arrest sure to fuel such rumors, Italian police last week seized a Bulgarian citizen named Sergei Ivanov Antonov, 34, head of the Rome office for Balkan Airlines. The charge: that Antonov was an active accomplice of Agca...
During World War II he served as assistant to the director of the Balkan section of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He was best known for his book "The Balkans in Our Times...
...prospect of Tito's imminent death revived quiescent fears about what might befall Yugoslavia afterward. Would the polyglot Balkan nationalities that Tito had united into a nation resume their old, antagonistic ways and 'tear the country apart? If so, would the Soviet Union jump into the disorder to reassert its hegemony over the maverick Communist state...
Among Rumania's 21.5 million citizens, Ceauşescu's family-fostering ways have stirred no great undertow of resentment. After all, nepotism is an old Balkan tradition and may be a small price to pay for a new one that Ceauşescu himself has invented: keeping independent of the Soviets. In both areas Ceausescu has proved himself an adept...
...Harvard Square Theater. If you hide in the balcony overnight, you can see Tom Waits and Leon Redbone the following evening. For free (otherwise it'll cost you $8.50). From Nov. 9-12 you can catch Stormin' Norman and Suzy at Passim. For those of you who are into Balkan-American Folk Music (fees up, I know you're out there somewhere) Laduvane willbe coming to Passim on Nov. 1. And on Nov. 5, Jonathan Swift's will host the guy who did "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore," the "legendary" Bob Gibson. (I hear a disco version...