Word: ljubljana
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Vladimir Ribaric, chief of the geophysical observatory in Ljubljana, said the earthquake registered 7.2 on the Richter scale, 1.2 points higher than Yugoslavia's worst recorded tremor...
DIED. Edvard Kardelj, 69, Yugoslav Communist ideologist and heir apparent to President Tito; of cancer; in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. When his nation was expelled from the Soviet-led Cominform in 1948, Vice President Kardelj devised its new ideological foundation, granting greater freedom to local factories and party cells as well as pioneering a foreign policy of nonalignment. Until taken ill five years ago, the loyal official was widely expected to succeed Tito...
...York. In Moscow, for example, sanitation men who work the hardest are paid the most. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, solicited competitive bids for a project from city planners in a neighboring municipality as well as its own planners...
...occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East. Last week Sadat's Boeing 707 presidential jet whisked him westward for a change. By way of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and Vienna, Sadat flew to the scenic Austrian city of Salzburg for a face-to-face meeting-his first-with Gerald Ford...
...Josip Broz Tito, speaking in Ljubljana last month Thanks to Tito's shrewdness and determination, Yugoslavia for nearly 25 years has indeed managed to stay where it is: perched in fierce independence in the Balkans, astride the treacherous political and geographical fault lines that divide East and West Europe. Now, despite Tito's denials, the sounds from Belgrade suggest that the country is going somewhere, and fast...