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...huge volume of military aid, has totaled at least $1 billion. The Soviets now ship North Viet Nam some 50.000 tons of supplies a month, and their engineers are working in Haiphong on an eightfold expansion of the harbor facilities. Hanoi has also received a hospital and trucks from Bulgaria, engineering equipment from Czechoslovakia, medical aid from East Germany, machinery and consumer goods from Hungary and economic aid from Poland. North Vietnamese get training in various skills in Russia, China and several East bloc countries. However, Hanoi submits the returned trainees to a lengthy and stifling reindoctrination course, which apparently...
EASTERN EUROPE AND U.S.S.R. Water pollution and land reclamation threaten 26 species in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Poland. A leading Soviet conservationist asked in a recent issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Why do we see almost no flocks of cranes and geese in April? Why can we hear no quail in the fields in June?" One answer, as in much of the West, is the overuse of pesticides. Recently, two Soviet conservationists boldly and publicly accused none other than the Minister of Agriculture of illegal hunting in game preserves supposedly protected by the ministry...
...Cover: Photomontage by Robert S. Crandall from a photograph by Arthur Shay. The sculpture, Wedding Rings, is by Bulgaria's Svetoslav Djalazov...
...does acrobatic maneuvers. For a finale, Ringling's "human missiles," the Zacchinis, are fired from a cannon almost simultaneously. In the South, the Red company's program includes Sweden's "Unbelievable Lindstroms," who ride the high wire, all three of them balancing from a single unicycle; Bulgaria's Silagis, generally acknowledged as the world's most dazzling teeterboard act; and Gunther Gebel-Williams, a wild-animal tamer so impressive that Irvin Feld spent $2,000,000 to buy out an entire circus (belonging to Gunther's then mother-in-law) just to land...
...Bulgaria's Balkan is hardly the traveler's dream airline. Pilots do not land; they slap the planes onto the ground. Darkly exotic stewardesses dispense local drinks in tranquilizing amounts. Balkan rates last in ground efficiency, ends its flights at a scruffy terminal in Sofia. The restaurant is poor, but has a captive clientele since taxi service is worse...