Word: bulgarias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to emphasize that the liquidation of Radio Free Europe would be interpreted by the peoples of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania as final recognition by the United States of the present status quo and of the permanence of Soviet rule in East Europe...
...Europe, Macedonia may well be the fuse. The issue that could provide the spark is a century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
Radio Free Europe employs 1,600 people, 960 of them at its headquarters in Munich. Operating on a $21 million budget, it broadcasts a total of 557 hours each week in native language to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. About half of the programs is news and analysis of events in the various East bloc countries. Other programs range from music hours featuring the latest Western rock to special reports on living conditions of foreign workers in Western Europe...
...Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe, RFE's audience is impressive: 78% of all radio-listening Poles, 81% of the Hungarians, 77% of Rumanians, 78% of Bulgarians and 60% of the Czechoslovaks. At present, all the East bloc countries except Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have given up trying to jam RFE since the broadcasts tend to get through anyhow...
...citizens will be issued a special passport, good for travel within the bloc and valid for five years. East Germany and Rumania plan to waive visas for each other's citizens in time for a summer rush to Rumania's Black Sea resorts, and Poland and Bulgaria are negotiating a similar agreement...