Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Byelorussia's Kirill Mazurov, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Albania's Mehmet Shehu, Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Symbolically, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, his frosty-white hair matted in an undisciplined shag, took his seat in a distant corner, tied to Khrushchev by ideology but less than the others by strings...
...Bulgaria. Though he holds no official government job, Todor Zkivkov, First Secretary of Bulgaria's Communist Party, considers himself the Bulgarian Khrushchev and, like his hero, is fond of making trips into the countryside to pose as the peasants' folksy friend. In Zhivkov's case, the effect is diminished by monotone oratory and a repugnant personality. A onetime printer and World War II partisan leader, chunky Todor Zhivkov, 49. is cold, humorless and conceited. Under his leadership, Bulgaria has become the only European satellite which has successfully herded virtually all its peasants onto collective farms...
...Lundula and Lumumba's private secretary, Bernard Salumu, have made junkets to Red China. Information Minister Anicet Kashamura runs the Congo radio and, at least on those days when puzzled Congolese technicians can get it on the air, broadcasts endless letters of sympathy from Communist groups in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Russia. His favorite charge: the Belgians started all the trouble by raping Congolese women...
...locomotives than any factory in the world, undertook to build machines, tools, heavy electrical equipment. Poland began specializing in coal mining and transport equipment. East Germany set out to concentrate on chemicals, building materials, precision machinery. Hungary was told to concentrate on aluminum processing. Rumania on petroleum production, and Bulgaria, on the sunny Black Sea coast, undertook to become a kind of fourth-class Florida of orchards, vineyards, and resorts for exhausted heroes of Soviet labor...