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...Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Rumania...
Almost immediately, many of the 240 Greek liaison officers stationed at NATO installations throughout Europe packed their bags and started home. Greece's 35,000-man Third Army pulled back from its NATO-assigned position at Greece's Macedonian frontier with Bulgaria (a Warsaw Pact member) and headed eastward to Thrace and the Turkish border...
...departure of Greece, one of the weakest powers in the alliance, it will be hurt tactically-more so even than when Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated command in 1966. Unlike France, Greece is part of NATO's front line, bordering directly on Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Greece also controls, along with Turkey, the strategically important Aegean Sea, which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says a U.S. military expert. "Just look...
...might dare to intervene in the turmoil in Yugoslavia that is expected to follow the death of the aging Josip Broz Tito. For the past three years NATO units (including Greeks and Turks) have held exercises in northern Greece to practice intercepting Warsaw Pact forces if they move through Bulgaria on their way to invade Yugoslavia. Now, with Athens out of NATO, such a strategy becomes much more difficult and removes at least one deterrent, however minor in the scale of Soviet strategic considerations, to a Russian attack on Yugoslavia...
...awards, made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation, are intended for study and research languages or travel relating to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany since 1945 and modern Greece...