Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pipes disagreed, saying that Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary might "pounce on and pressure" Yugoslavia in an attempt to intensify hostilities among different political factions
...greatest danger facing Yugoslavia, the experts agreed, is that the Soviets will either exploit the tensions among Yugoslavia's various republics, or encourage Bulgaria to provoke a border dispute with Yugoslavia and intervene in support of their ally...
Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government and an expert on Soviet foreign policy, said recently the Soviets will not exploit the tensions between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia unless specifically asked to do so by the Yugoslavian Communist Party...
Raymond T. Miller, an associate at the Russian Research Center, said last month that if the Soviets were interested in gaining control of Yugoslavia by invasion, they would have their satellite Bulgaria provoke a border dispute and then intervene. But he added that "this is not a real possibility...
Taber was assisted by Reporter-Researchers Charles Alexander and Robert Grieves, who helped to pin down such fine points as the cost of gasoline in Bulgaria, the distribution of wealth envisioned in Plato's Republic, and whether Marie Antoinette really did say, "Let them eat cake" (she did not). Says Alexander: "Happily, we had to reach out of our accustomed economic niche to become students of history, literature and philosophy." Last week TIME opened its first bureau on mainland China since our office in Shanghai was closed in September 1949, four months after the city was taken over...