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...Great Rewrite. One of the chief side effects of the Great Rewrite of history is the rehabilitation of former "Titoist criminals," dead or alive. Among last week's subjects for party absolution was Traicho Rostov, a Bulgarian Communist who had shocked his judges and been hissed in court when he denied having made the 32,000-word "confession" of traitorous acts presented at his trial in 1949. Last week it seemed that Rostov, who had been duly hanged, was really innocent all along...
With all this industry, confusion was inescapable-as was plagiarism by lesser writers. Bulgarian-born Professor Artine Artinian of New York's Bard College, long a pro-De Maupassant agitator, has now brought out the first complete English-language edition of the master's works, with 65 stories purged from the old De Maupassant canon and with hitherto unknown or unpublished pieces added...
From his stone observation post, a scant 300 ft. from the Bulgarian border, Arkoudas and a handful of tough, mustached Greek soldiers saw an aircraft coming over the Ograzden mountain, which rises nearly 6,000 ft. on the Bulgarian side of the Strumica river valley. The plane, a plainly marked Lockheed Constellation of El Al Israel Airlines, was about ten miles away and approaching...
After 24 hours' silence, Sofia Radio charged that the plane had edged onto Bulgarian territory and said that it was shot down by trigger-happy Bulgarian antiaircraft gunners. The Communist government of Bulgaria expressed its "deep regret." When a three-man Israeli investigation commission arrived at the crash site, the Bulgars had removed most of the wreckage...
...Communism something which gave "dignity back to all those I fight with." In the 1930s, the Communists claimed Malraux as their own. Malraux wrote a pro-Communist novel (Days of Wrath), went to Moscow several times, with Gide carried a protest to Hitler against the conviction of Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitrov for the Reichstag fire...