Word: bulgaria
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...will never be anyone's satellite." But that was years ago, before cockeyed Communist economics, compounded by an almost willful Latin mismanagement, brought Castro's revolution to its present state of decay. "We are now," says one Havana observer, "watching the slow decline of Cuba into another Bulgaria...
...Eugenie Anderson, 56, ex-Democratic national committeewoman from Minnesota, former Ambassador to Denmark (1949-53), later Minister to Bulgaria (1962-64), as representative to the Trusteeship Council, succeeding Mrs. Marietta Tree...
...what was perhaps the last great cavalry march of European warfare, advancing 57 miles in six days across craggy, wild Balkan mountains to seize the chief enemy bastion of Skoplje. In Paris, Winston Churchill later recalled, "it was recognized at once that the end had come." Six weeks after Bulgaria's surrender, German plenipotentiaries capitulated in the railroad car in the Compiègne Forest...
...collapse of the Macedonian front." He was stunned. He had been scarcely aware that there was a Macedonian front, let alone that it mattered. And, like the Kaiser, historians have largely ignored the mixed army of British, French, Serbs, Greeks and Italians that broke through the Macedonian mountains, forced Bulgaria's surrender, and was sweeping northward toward the Danube as the Kaiser heard the fateful words. No Paris street names recall Macedonian victories, no heroes' welcome awaited the returning veterans. Vainly did the Times of London plead that "justice be done to those men who have...
Wheat Board, said the Russians were paying the top-grade price of $1.93 a bu., or almost $450 million. Coupled with other sales to Red China, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, the new deal guarantees a market for Canada's entire 1965 wheat crop (estimated at 800 million bu.), will boost wheat export earnings to a record $1.2 billion this year and cut deeply into Canada's $453-mil-lion balance-of-payments deficit. In return, Sharp promised Russian Trade Delegate Nikolai Ossipov that Canada would increase its purchases from Russia, now a mere $3,000,000 yearly...