Word: drava
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...reported itself over Zagreb about on schedule, but Yugoslav radio monitors later computed that it was actually over Varazdin, 40 miles away (see map) ; apparently the pilot had mistaken the Drava for the Sava...
Near Beli Manastir, where the Drava flows close to Hungary, the plane reportedly was fired on by Hungarian ground batteries. As it approached Recita, in Rumania, it was fired on again. The 6026 wheeled around, crossed into Hungary at Gyula, according to Radio Moscow. "However," said Radio Moscow, "the plane then got into the zone of the Soviet Air Force stationed in Hungary...
...serious-minded young King (who was christened with the mixed waters of Yugoslavia's three great rivers, the Sava, the Drava and the Danube) grew up as a Serb. His chief tutors were Professor Slobodan Jovanovitch of Belgrade University, who is sometimes called "Yugoslavia's intellectual conscience," and Chief of Staff General Kossitch. Peter also had an English tutor, C. C. Parrot, who taught him to like Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse. As the time for his assumption of power approached (he will be 18 next September) Peter grew away from the influence of his uncle...
...Drava Ljubljana...
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