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...Ruski Boulevard, in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria is bordered by relatively independent Rumania, maverick Yugoslavia, and two NATO member states, Greece and Turkey. Expanding Soviet interest in the nearby Middle East and Mediterranean has given this 43,000-sq. mi. enclave new strategic importance. Although the Kremlin is so confident of Bulgarian loyalty that no Russian troops are stationed there, the Soviets have deployed "Frog" and "Skud" ground-missile installations, which are manned by Bulgarians...
Even without armed divisions, the Soviet presence in Bulgaria is exceptionally high-powered. The Kremlin's emissary to Sofia, Vladimir Bazovsky, acts more like an imperial proconsul than an ambassador. Bazovsky's staff includes high-ranking "advisers" to the Bulgarian armed forces and secret police. Such supervision seems scarcely necessary, however; Bulgaria's Moscow-trained leadership has maintained a tighter grip on its people than any other Soviet-bloc government. Party Leader Todor Zhivkov, 61, who has been in power for 18 years, presides over the oldest Politburo in Eastern Europe (average age of full members...
...major North Vietnamese cities, only Hanoi has escaped extensive bomb damage. Although military targets around the city's perimeter are pounded daily, visitors report that an almost Continental charm survives in the city's center. The purr of Czech motorbikes and the chatter of lovers drinking Bulgarian wine beside Lake Hoan Kien lend color to the clean but dour city. All factories and warehouses have been relocated deep inside dense forests to the west and south of the city...
...satisfying listening of the evening, simply because one never hears Bartok performed so sympathetically. Dissonance, so much a matter of course in the composer's style, was treated as such, rather than as a means of jolting the listener. In these pieces (Improvisations, op. 20, and Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, from Book VI of the Mikrokosmos), as always, the clarity of texture and poetry of phrasing characteristic of Mr. Berman's playing brought forth all aspects of the music in a deliberate, well-balanced interpretation; and so precise was the technical execution that even the most complex rhythms were...