Word: bulgarias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screen out "undesirable" elements and watch for prospective recruits. If a student is among the several dozen chosen for guerrilla training, he receives special courses and favors and may discover that he has become irresistible to pretty Russian girls. Later he may be "farmed out" to North Korea, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or elsewhere for further instruction. When he finally goes home, he remains under the guidance of a resident...
...placing in the meet, Blakinger has been invited to a summer wrestling camp from which U. S. representatives to the upcoming World Championship at Sophia, Bulgaria, will be chosen...
...sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President-particularly after Don Pepe. having already established relations with Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, moved to exchange ambassadors with the Soviet Union as well. (Costa Rica has been selling its surplus coffee to the Russians for U.S. dollars for two years...
Serious Yugoslav resistance came to a head in 1948 over Stalin's proposed federation between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. When the Yugoslavs refused, the Soviet dictator first urged good Communists in Yugoslavia to depose Tito, then set about that task himself. A virtual civil war ensued between Soviet agents and Yugoslav security forces. The latter won out, but only after some 10,000 Soviet agents, sympathizers and suspects had been put in jail. Throughout the period, the Yugoslavs tried to avoid fighting Stalinism with Stalinism. But, as Dedijer concedes, they did not always succeed...
...ALIGNMENTS. With the U.S. presence shrinking, many nations are moving to hedge their bets by establishing closer relations with other big powers. In the past year, Thailand has established trade relations with Moscow as well as with Rumania and Bulgaria. The Philippines and Malaysia are also contemplating more active relations with the Kremlin. Some nations are hopeful that a more stable and responsible China will eventually emerge. Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia hope-and expect-that within the next decade both the Western powers and the major Communist powers will guarantee the neutrality of Southeast Asia...