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...move. Outside the buildings on Sofia's Alexander Stambolisky Boulevard and Budapest's Freedom Square, the LEGATION signs will be taken down as quickly as EMBASSY signs can be found. In both Communist capitals, U.S. ambassadors will replace lesser-ranked envoys. Thus, in agreeing with Bulgaria and Hungary to exchange ambassadors and upgrade legations to embassies, Lyndon Johnson laid in place another span of roadbed for the ever-lengthening "bridges across the gulf" that he is attempting to build between the U.S. and the Communist countries of Europe...
...agreements with Hungary and Bulgaria may help salve several irritants. Hungarians privately insist that the fate of József Cardinal Mindszenty, who became the chief cause of contention between the two countries when he was granted asylum in the U.S. legation during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, no longer interests them-though a 24-hour watch is maintained just in case he should decide to step outside. With Bulgaria, the major issue is Sofia's stubborn insistence on remaining the only European country that still jams Voice of America broadcasts...
...hours with news of the fall of Nikita Khrushchev; this year it carried the most complete accounts of the trials of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam still try to jam VOA transmissions, but all the Communist countries of Europe except Bulgaria have quit jamming...
Westerners three years ago, 3,000,000 tourists have swept through-most of them to bask in the sun on once-deserted Black Sea beaches, others to visit Sofia's antiquity-rich hinterland dotted with Thracian, Macedonian and Roman ruins. Recently, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Turkey joined in a tourist venture publicizing "historic" Highway E-5-the Roman route to the Near East that later carried Crusaders and pilgrims in their long journey to the Holy Land. The publicity blurbs pointedly failed to mention that the road also served the Turkish janizaries in their harsh 500-year occupation of Bulgaria...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...