Word: bulgaria
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American Debut. The flu has reached epidemic proportions in Eastern Europe. Two weeks ago, Radio Budapest announced that the disease had affected 1.3 million, or 9% of Hungary's population. Czech authorities reported that about 900,000 were afflicted in their country; Bulgaria acknowledged 655,000 cases, Yugoslavia 50,000. Last month the flu raged through Moscow, causing some deaths...
Actually, most ex-Kings and claimants to nonexistent thrones live better than their ex-subjects. Spain and Portugal seem to be the favorite spots of exile, with Switzerland a close third. Albania's Leka I, Bulgaria's Simeon II and Russia's Grand Duke Vladimir-who presumably would be enthroned as Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad...
Almost all have given up hopes of returning. Don Juan and Umberto still hold shadow court in Portugal's Estoril, but more as a gesture to the past than a look to the future. Albania's Leka and Bulgaria's Simeon, on the other hand, still work for the day when their people will come to their senses and call them back. The only one who seems to have a real chance of resuming the kingly tradition, however, is Don Juan's son Prince Juan Carlos, who has been promised the Spanish throne on the death...
...Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Rumania...
...might dare to intervene in the turmoil in Yugoslavia that is expected to follow the death of the aging Josip Broz Tito. For the past three years NATO units (including Greeks and Turks) have held exercises in northern Greece to practice intercepting Warsaw Pact forces if they move through Bulgaria on their way to invade Yugoslavia. Now, with Athens out of NATO, such a strategy becomes much more difficult and removes at least one deterrent, however minor in the scale of Soviet strategic considerations, to a Russian attack on Yugoslavia...