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...BULGARIA...
...most highly fortified and guarded pieces of real estate in Europe is a patch of ground where the borders of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece meet in the wild Belasica Mountains overlooking the Struma and Strumica river valleys, one of the historic invasion routes to the Aegean Sea. There, one sunlit morning last week, Greek Lieut. Vassili Arkoudas, on duty in the most forward of the Greek outposts, was startled by the sound of heavy antiaircraft fire...
...Constellation was on the regular weekly flight from London to Israel via Paris, Vienna and Istanbul. Because Communist Bulgaria's borders are closed to all but Communist aircraft, the flight course normally follows a twelve-mile-wide corridor across Yugoslavia and takes a sharp dog leg around southwest Bulgaria, before flying across Greece to Turkey. The man who originally charted the course for El Al, Captain Stanley Hinks, 35, was at the controls. Among his passengers were twelve Americans, all New Yorkers on their way to visit friends and relatives in Israel. Captain Hinks's last message, radioed...
After 24 hours' silence, Sofia Radio charged that the plane had edged onto Bulgarian territory and said that it was shot down by trigger-happy Bulgarian antiaircraft gunners. The Communist government of Bulgaria expressed its "deep regret." When a three-man Israeli investigation commission arrived at the crash site, the Bulgars had removed most of the wreckage...
...latest sally into the educational alley, the Gallup poll decided that the average U.S. college graduate has a knowledge of geography unworthy of an eight-year-old. Of those questioned, about eight in ten could not locate Bulgaria, nearly seven flunked on Rumania, nearly six did not recognize Yugoslavia or Austria, half flubbed on Poland. One out of twelve not only missed these, but Spain, France and England as well...