Word: bulgarias
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...take a holiday elsewhere in Eastern Europe without first stocking up on home-produced articles: textiles, sunglasses and playing cards for Rumania; shirts, shoes, socks and blue jeans for the Soviet Union; fruits for East Germany; bras, corsets and panty hose for Hungary; shoes, textiles and auto parts for Bulgaria. The enterprising Czech visitor either sells the articles for local currency or barters them for liquor in Rumania, coffee, vodka, car parts and a portable color-TV set in the Soviet Union, salami in Hungary, and curtain material in East Germany-all of which he either keeps or resells back...
Likewise, Poles visiting Bulgaria dispose of Polish raincoats, watches and small manufactured items; while there, they stock up on sheepskin coats and rose-petal oil, which move fast on the streets back in Warsaw or Lodz. East Europeans who visit the Soviet Union commonly report, as does one Pole: "The Russians are literally willing to buy the shirt off your back." Poles, Czechs and East Germans return freighted with Russian cameras and fur caps for the local market. Vacationing Hungarians find that their most reliable moneymaker is their salami...
...drugs. Out in the field, U.S. ambassadors have been charged with driving the point home. In Turkey, Ambassador William Handley told friends: "In this embassy, careers depend on getting opium banned." In drug matters, the U.S. has been receiving close cooperation from Yugoslavia and even Bulgaria, but State Department officials gripe that "it's damned hard to get an Italian or a Belgian even to think about pollution, let alone drugs." In Latin America, only Mexico has been really responsive. Chile has flatly refused to help...
...Four leftist Turkish guerrillas captured a Turkish Airlines flight out of Ankara and threatened to destroy the plane with guns and grenades if three political prisoners were not released. The gunmen diverted the flight to Bulgaria, where they were granted asylum...
...conference itself often seems more political than environmental. Russia, together with Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, started by boycotting the conference because it had failed to invite Communist East Germany as a full participant. At week's end, Soviet delegates were found holed up in a Stockholm hotel, waiting for word on whether to attend the meetings. But if the U.S. delegates' experience is any indication of the problems the superpowers can encounter within the environmental movement, the Russians may come to wish they had stayed away altogether...