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...passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through the winter just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaky Sanctions | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Dugal and Bertrand plan to analyze the urine of 175 athletes every day. And lest any think that they are home free after a clean test, there is the cautionary tale of the East bloc Weight Lifter Valentin Christov. After an early test at the Montreal Games showed that he was clean, he apparently began stoking steroids. A gold medalist, he was automatically selected for a second test. This time the drugs were detected in his urine and he lost his medal and went home in disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Patrol | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Marseille police reporters soon had a story fleshed out. The man's name was Dontcho Christov, once a top civil servant in King Boris' government of Bulgaria. Christov had stayed on in Sofia after the Communists took over. But when things had got too hot for him he had climbed into his old Ford and taken off. A message to Paris announcing his coming had been delayed. When it finally arrived, officers of the Services de Documentation et de Contre-Espionnage had wired the local Sūreté to take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mediterranean Cruise | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Dmitri Christov, Grabowsky's successor as Minister of the Interior, did not even get into Turkey. When the Turks refused to let him cross the frontier, Ex-minister Christov killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Criminals | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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