Word: macedonia
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...Texas during the 19th century from what is now East Germany. Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish. The book's separate listing for Macedonians is expected to upset both Greeks and Bulgarians because historically Macedonia was part of both southern Bulgaria and northern Greece, and both nationalities view Macedonians as their own. The scholar who wrote the four-page listing on Macedonians asked to remain anonymous to avoid recrimination...
...where friction is developing between Serbs and the rapidly exploding ethnic Albanian population. Two months ago, 50 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were charged with fomenting political unrest. This could conceivably serve as a Soviet pretext for stirring up trouble in Yugoslavia, as could the thinly disguised Bulgarian claims on Macedonia, the country's southernmost republic...
Whatever the truth, the principals were coolly going about their business last week. The tireless Tito visited Iraq, Syria and Jordan, while Minutic was singing La Traviata in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Minutic's father, when reached at his home in Dalmatia, denied the gossip about his daughter's romance. "The only thing they have in common," he said, "is their love for good music...
...range in character and style the group boasts of! It has performed from San Francisco to Moscow, is composed of Engineering to Slavic majors, has alumni in international opera companies and huge business corporations, and stores a repertoire of liturgical and secular music ranging geographically from Latvia to Macedonia. But the range stops somewhere. According to the Chorus' publicity brochure, the range stops when it comes to articulation and emotion. "All," it says," are articulate, and all share the deep emotions their music demands...
...Balkan hand, is better known as the right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...