Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final Olympic basketball game between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: I happened to sit behind the Red China delegation . . . They were applauding both teams, when just before halftime a comrade with an Olympic uniform (I believe from Bulgaria) came over and set them straight. From then on, the applause went strictly to the Russians...
...seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged sandbank in the unnavigable Evros River which, in one ten-mile stretch, forms the border between Soviet-dominated Bulgaria and U.S.-protected Greece...
Russia, Red China, North Korea, Poland, Rumania. Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia had come not to praise the International Red Cross, but to divide it. Peking's delegation took the lead with a gross but expected attack on the U.S. Said Peking's "report" to the Red Cross: ". . . the germ warfare started by the American Government has failed to achieve its purpose...
...mayor, proclaimed this week the traditional "Olympic truce" (a throwback to the B.C. days when the Greeks called off their local wars to celebrate the games), there were a few inevitable rhubarbs. Both Nationalist and Red China, along with East Germany, suddenly and belatedly demanded admission for their teams. Bulgaria, which drew Russia in a first-round soccer match, complained bitterly when a soccer "unknown," The Netherlands West Indies, drew a first-round...
...BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...