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...justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
Target No. 1. Out of concern for ruffled French feelings, the U.S. and Britain held off from recognizing Touré's independent state. Communist Bulgaria sent Guinea its first full-fledged ambassador. The Soviet Union followed soon after. By last week, things had gone so far that a U.S. State Department official grimly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Guinea had become Communism's No. 1 target in Africa. Touré has channeled at least a third of his total trade (chief exports: bananas, peanuts and coffee) to Eastern Europe...
...Brotherland's countless fratricidal quarrels, satellite Bulgaria in 1949 charged Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov with plotting against the Communist regime and, just to give the case its proper anticapitalist flavor, accused U.S. Minister Donald R. Heath of conspiring with Kostov. The U.S. promptly broke off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. Since then, Switzerland has been handling U.S. interests in Bulgaria, and Poland has been looking after Bulgarian affairs in the U.S. In 1956 the Bulgarians re-examined the Kostov case, exonerated Kostov himself-years after he had been executed. The U.S. ever since has been bombarded by the Bulgars with...
...Communist book, no index of success or failure is more sternly noted than the degree of farm collectivization. Among the satellites, impoverished Bulgaria ranks highest, with 95%. Hungary ranks second to last, ahead only of Poland. Ever since the Hungarian revolt, when farmers up and left the collectives, the Communist leaders have had a hard time getting them back. Last December Hungary's Party Boss Janos Kadar confessed to Moscow that only 17% of the land was collectivized, and added, "We know we are behind other Socialist countries . . . but we are moving ahead as quickly...
...replaced by three army officers and five civilians who are moderates but willing to work with the Communists. Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba and Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid stayed on in their posts. They were the very same officials who last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply technical aid and erect 20 industrial projects over the years, not with Soviet funds but with Iraq's sizable profits from its British-run oil wells...