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...might be significant. Two other possibilities: John Blatnik, 53, an 18-year Congressman from Minnesota's iron-range area, who is backed by Senator Eugene McCarthy and officials of the United Steelworkers Union; Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, the nation's first woman ambassador (Denmark) and now Minister to Bulgaria...
...there are other compensations in the life of a Communist lap dog. Since 1947, Russia has pumped $1,920,000,000 in aid and loans into Bulgaria's predominantly agricultural economy. As a result, Bulgarians have moved off the farms (where 70% of the 8,000,000 population lived just 20 years ago v. 50% today) and into a boomlet of industrialization. To the $838.3 million worth of vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products...
There are even a few "tape-recorder youth," so named because they secretly tape Western jazz and popular music unavailable in Bulgaria. They affect trim Ivy League suits, drink "worker's brandy" (cheap, sweet vermouth), read such Western authors as Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, and furtively swap anti-regime jokes-despite the fact that Bulgaria alone among the European satellites still jails such jokers...
Pilot Experiment. Indeed Bulgaria has been among the slowest of the satellites to "liberalize" in the vital area of personal and artistic freedom. Premier Zhivkov prides himself on the "social realism" of his painters and writers -party hacks in the main. Unlike Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians remain vigilant and hard-handed in controlling public expression. But in one critical area, the economy, Bulgaria has proved as "liberal" as her neighbors...
...goods with a minimum of higher direction. Not only did the plant exceed its planned requirements, but by the year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage increase. This year 50 plants have adopted the new setup. Nonetheless, Bulgaria still has a long way to go before reaching self-sufficiency. This month Sofia authorities advised a knitwear firm in Northern Ireland that they would be interested in the immediate purchase of 240,000 pairs of socks-suggesting that there are still holes in the economy...