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...week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels to be the capital of an independent nation. France, Britain and the U.S. were busy setting up embassies; there had been trade missions from East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia; and last week the first ambassador arrived-from Communist Bulgaria. When Touré decided to say no to De Gaulle, he cut adrift a land that has only 200 university graduates, a literacy rate of 5%, and an average annual income for most peasants of about $40. But Africa today is in no mood to be practical. Guinea...
Newly promoted to sergeant, Cadet Simeon Rylski of Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, who until 1946 had a country (Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
During his 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria and in Greece and Turkey, John is said to have grown optimistic about the possibilities of closer relations with the Eastern church...
...silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message was carried by the then Archbishop Roncalli, who is now Pope John XXIII. But marrying a Moslem would...
Died. Georgi Damyanov, 66, Kremlin-stooge President of Bulgaria since 1950; in Sofia...