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Once in Moscow, the competition began in earnest. Radcliffe got a break when the top three teams, Russia, Rumania, and East Germany, drew the same heat in the preliminaries. Nevertheless, the 'Cliffe finished fourth in its heat. Bulgaria finished first in the Radcliffe heat, and joined Russia as automatic finalists...
...abortion law (virtually without restrictions) in 1920, years before any other country. To arrest a declining birth rate, the law was repealed in 1936-and then reinstated in 1955. Similarly liberal laws were passed during the 1950s in many Communist countries of Eastern Europe (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria). Japan, too, has a permissive law, as do China and India. In the latter two countries, however, not everyone who wants an abortion can get one, simply because medical facilities are too few and often too far away for poor people to reach...
...that "all interested European parties" be included-a demand that seemed calculated to ensure that MBFR would be a collection of dead letters. Last week speaking for its NATO partners, the U.S. agreed to Vienna, but insisted that only a modest expansion of the talks would be acceptable. Bulgaria and Rumania would be allowed to join in as rotating Warsaw Pact "observers," just as Norway, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Turkey will on the NATO side...
...Russian people, with whom they have ethnic, linguistic and religious affinities. To such pragmatic young Bulgarian bureaucrats as Petar Mladenov, 36, the youngest Foreign Minister in Europe, and Andrei Lukanov, 34, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, this friendliness extends even to the Soviet government. According to Lukanov, Bulgaria's transformation from an agricultural backwater into an industrial and trading power in the Balkans is largely owing to Soviet aid. "Without the U.S.S.R.," he said, "it would have been impossible for us to develop our exports to the point where we are now the world's largest exporter...
Comfort. In spite of enduring contradictions, there is an overwhelming impression in Bulgaria of modest but widespread comfort, prosperity in the villages around the capital and impressive organization in agriculture. Sofia is striking for its many sumptuously planted parks, its wide-domed churches brightly lit at night and the yellow cobblestones that pave the main boulevards. City residents, proud of their distinctive cobblestones, have successfully persuaded the municipal authorities to abandon plans to replace them with asphalt. One woman journalist explained, "We couldn't let them tear up our streets," adding, "after all, they're paved in gold...