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Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...
Shortly before Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last year, Bulgaria's Ambassador to the U.N. signed a vaguely worded communiqué in Washington that the U.S. accepted as sufficient apology. A new Bulgarian minister took up his post in Washington praising "the spirit of Camp David," and last week, after a ten-year lapse, U.S. Minister Edward Page Jr., 54, arrived in Sofia to reopen the U.S. mission...
...witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack of evidence...
...Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
Thin Excuse. In Vienna, asked why his Communist nation had not yet published Russian Novelist Boris Pasternak's heretical Doctor Zhivago, a visiting Bulgarian writer solemnly explained:"It's too thick...