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Prague has erupted in two race riots within two years. Last February in Sofia, Bulgarian militiamen wielded clubs against 200 Ghanaians who were marching down the main street demanding nothing more than their own campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive...
...displayed a model of the 110,000-seat stadium under construction. They promised to charge athletes only $2.80 a day for room and board? lower than Detroit-and crowds would be no problem for their tourist-oriented city. And what about the 7,400-ft. altitude? Snorted a Bulgarian delegate: "Horses never have trouble getting acclimatized down there. And if horses can stand it, so can the humans...
...fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years of stalling the U.S., Sofia finally agreed to a settlement involving more than $3,500,000 in conflicting commercial claims. Reason: Bulgaria badly wants to boost trade with the U.S., leaped at the chance to open a trade promotion office...
...arrival of Africans has created race problems in several parts of the Communist world. There was trouble in Prague last year. At Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, 500 African students are carefully segregated from Russians; three months ago in Sofia, 600 club-wielding Bulgarian cops cracked the skulls of African students who were demonstrating for nothing more than their own campus organization...
...role. The Metropolitan Opera's Jerome Hines conducted a hit-and-run seminar in psychology some years ago and concluded that Boris was a hysteric and a manic-depressive. Boris' death, Hines has decided, is from cerebral hemorrhage, and he induces it onstage by temple-pounding. Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff sees the tortured Czar as a man who "dies of his own sin, his own dishonesty-not heart trouble or mental illness." At the Met this season, operagoers have seen George London's Boris die twice (broken by the weight of genius); last week's schedule...