Word: branko
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...unexpected summons. The usually aloof Chinese Foreign Ministry had invited Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, 47, for a chat. Over Indian tea, the woman in charge of the press section recited some Mao-thoughts. Then she got down to business. Bogunovic had to leave the country for writing "distorted and slanderous stories about the Chinese Cultural Revolution." After filing 2,500 stories from Peking since 1957, Bogunovic hastily collected his wife and boarded a train for the Soviet Union...
...Shanghai and Shenyang, northbound trains were suddenly clogged with unaccustomed passengers. For a fortnight, trainload after trainload of Soviet technicians and their families have been leaving for home with all their belongings -but without any farewell fanfare in the press or happy fraternal rallies at the station. Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, who sent out the story of the exodus, wrote: "The official explanation is that the Soviet experts are leaving after the expiration of their contracts. But other versions are circulating in Peking which throw a different light on the matter...