Word: petar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minneapolis Tribune opened onto the sneering image of one of my four traveling Yugoslavs. I dredged the forgotten picture from the bottom of my pack and the pair seemed to mirror each other right down to the cut of their clothes. The following day the outlaws' identities were released--Petar Matovic was a resident of New York. But I can't help musing that the sketch of the man with the mustache that emerged in my first class compartment last summer fits Matovic well, and isn't any more sparing than the newspaper account. I'll always wonder what...
Unlike most other East Europeans, Bulgarians seem genuinely friendly toward the 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...