Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgrade, a furniture company was saved from bankruptcy when fire destroyed its antiquated- but well insured- plant. In the town of Pirot, a money-losing rubber factory, also insured, went up in flames. In Bosnia, a meat-packing plant mysteriously burned down...
...Under the head Foreign Relations in the Nation section one reads the narration of the week's events after Vietnam disappeared without warning-the first country to do so since Bosnia-Herzogovina. Despite this event, the story continues, the U.S. and China have refused to change their policies towards Vietnam. The U.S. has continued to bomb the navigational points of bridges and railroads, while the Chinese have not ceased pouring troops into the new Laotian Gulf...
...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, both by Ivo Andric. Two books-the first, three short novels, the second, a single not very long one-by the Yugoslav author of the powerful novel of tyranny in Bosnia, The Bridge on the Drina. His target is still tyranny, some of it ancient and some, as is clearly legible between the lines, quite modern...
...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, both by Ivo Andric. Two books-the first, three short novels, the second, a single not very long one-by the Yugoslav author of the powerful novel of tyranny in Bosnia, The Bridge on the Drina. His target is still tyranny, some of it ancient and some, as is clearly legible between the lines, quite modern...
...regions in the world have known so little freedom as Bosnia, now part of Yugoslavia. For centuries it was brutally governed by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. When the Turks were driven out toward the end of the last century, the Austrians moved in for 40 years. The Nazis took over in 1941, and the Communists in 1945, each adding its own refinement to the art of oppression. Out of this blood-soaked, soul-scarred land, a writer has emerged whose works constitute a massive indictment of tyranny. Ivo Andric, 70, won the 1961 Nobel Prize chiefly...