Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo, during an international soccer match between Egypt and Vienna, photographers snapped a listless rooter in a grimace of royal disgust: Bulgaria's exiled King Simeon II, 13, who had left his classes in Alexandria's Victoria College to see the game...
...wise to use a language which vaguely corresponds with the surname of the writer. At the sight of this peculiarly phrased sentence, the following train of thought inevitably goes through the grader's mind: "Gee this guy is obviously a foreigner; must have come all the way from Bulgaria just to go to Harvard. Anybody who would travel that far to go to school must have something on the ball." That's all there is to it. Once the grader has decided the writer must be clever, he reads the exam through benign eyes...
...years since Bulgaria declared her independence of Turkey, the Turkish minority in Bulgaria has lived peaceably. They are hard-shell Moslems, but they get along with their Christian neighbors, stay out of politics...
Last week Bulgaria's Turks were the bewildered victims in a typical Communist game of mischiefmaking. Their troubles began Aug. 10, when the Sofia government brusquely demanded that within 90 days Turkey admit 250,000 Bulgars of Turkish descent...
Among possible motives of Bulgaria's Communist government were: 1) a horde of homeless, propertyless refugees, arriving as winter began, would severely tax the strained Turkish national treasury; 2) it would rid Bulgaria of an unassimilable group, living near its strategic frontiers; 3) it would make even more docile the 600,000 Turkish Moslems who stayed behind; 4) it would provide an excellent avenue for sneaking into Turkey hundreds of Red agents...