Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warming atmosphere that has drawn Eastern and Western Europe closer, one frigid holdout has been Bulgaria. Now, the tiny Balkan nation is also thawing a bit. Last week Todor Zhivkov, 55, Premier of Bulgaria and the brisk, burly first secretary of its Communist Party, made his first official trip to Western Europe, spending three days on the French Riviera and three more in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle...
...foreign currency, his government has relaxed visa requirements, and Western tourists are flocking in. In the capital of Sofia, where the population has almost tripled (to 800,000) since 1940, new Western-style apartment buildings are sprouting, and Western cigarettes and liquor are becoming plentiful. Three weeks ago, Bulgaria even staged an international trade fair, buying more than $45 million worth of Western wares...
...Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the number of East German escapes to the West has been cut by more than half, and the figure keeps dropping almost every month. The rest of Eastern Europe cannot boast the same success. Last year escapes from Yugoslavia, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania rose more than 20%, and so far this year they are up another...
...natural order of economic geography, Communist Rumania and Bulgaria and NATO's Greece and Turkey ought to have much in common. The Iron Curtain, however, was arranged to suit Moscow's liking. Rumania and Bulgaria were assigned the role of "market gardens" within the Red bloc to feed and fuel the industrialized satellites of the Communist northern tier -East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. It was a role that the southern ers resented, and now that a measure of independence suffuses Eastern Europe, they are reaching out to fill the Balkans' natural pattern...
Pursuing fresh Balkan ties, Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu made a point of taking his vacation in Bulgaria in July, bringing to six the number of top-level visits between the two nations this year. Long-independent Red Yugoslavia, not to be left out, has sent Premier Peter Stambolic on a working holiday to Bulgaria, and has docketed him for Greece in October. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister meanwhile has gone to Turkey, which Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer visited last month. And last week, in the first visit to the Aegean kingdom ever made by a Communist Premier, Maurer flew...