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Last week he returned from Bulgaria after closing a deal in which Krupp will equip and manage a $25 million synthetic fiber plant. Krupp also signed a contract recently to build a cement plant in Yugoslavia, has made a deal to sell diesel-powered fishing boats to Bulgaria, and is holding talks with the Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian governments about machine-tool and other plants...
Vatican officials see no improvement in countries where persecution of small Catholic minorities has been most severe-Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, East Germany-and Vatican-Soviet relations are in cold storage. Moreover, the church is aware that any concessions offered represent tactical maneuvers, not any real reduction of Marxist hostility to religion. Thus, for the time being, Pope Paul hopes to obtain not a modus vivendi but a modus non moriendi (a way of not dying...
...that. It spoke of "brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...France, in fact, is aiming to overtake West Germany as the biggest dealer with Communism. Two months ago, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing signed a treaty to double trade with Russia to $700 million over the next five years; next month he will talk to Bulgaria...
Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo. In and out of the U.N., African leftists and their Communist backers seem determined to turn Lumumba into a martyr-saint. Bulgaria and Albania joined last week to praise the "great Congolese patriot" who symbolized the "heart of Africa" but was "brutally assassinated." The Ethiopian and Guinean delegations compared him to Hammarskjöld, while the Mali representative went one better and compared him to Hammarskjöld and John Kennedy...