Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bulgarian refugees, Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, both 28, boarded a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 in Sacramento. They demanded that $800,000 be delivered to them at San Francisco International airport and ordered the pilot to point a course for Siberia. The plane taxied to the isolated tip of Runway 19R, where it was finally stormed by FBI agents disguised as crewmen. The agents gunned down both hijackers, but during the Shootout, one passenger, E.H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Montreal, was also killed and two others were wounded...
...Communist bloc ships that had been steaming through the South China Sea toward North Viet Nam changed course. Three of them picked their way to anchorage in Hong Kong's crowded Victoria Harbor: Gotze Deltchev, flying the Bulgarian flag, and the East German freighters Heinz Kapelle and Gera, their main decks crowded with trucks that were to have been unloaded at Haiphong. When would the ships get under way again? Shrugged one East German seaman: "Not until the American offensive ends...
...wife chanced upon seven soldiers with an army truck looting the home of the French consul, and were roughed up by the looters. The following morning the Foreign Ministry made apologies and returned the consul's belongings. Burglaries have also occurred at homes of Italian, Canadian, Polish and Bulgarian diplomats. One exception of the caballeros de la noche: the Russian embassy, which also happens to be the most heavily guarded...
...fact that Sofia has refrained from joining in the recent chorus of attacks by Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia against Rumania's independent foreign policy. Even though Bulgaria and Turkey are members of rival military alignments, they are cooperating on several important issues. Sofia is allowing Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin to emigrate to Turkey, and the two countries have just opened a rail line that directly links them without going through Greece. In turn, Greece is a frequent target of Bulgarian propaganda, but Sofia earlier this year signed a pact for joint economic and scientific cooperation with Athens...
...first time since the end of World War II everybody in the Balkans is finally on speaking terms. Still, the terms are by no means always polite. Albania, Peking's principal friend in Europe, is still swapping denunciations with Bulgaria. Sofia and Belgrade are still quarreling over Bulgarian claims to the entire region of Macedonia...