Word: serb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, however, Ceauçescu remains well entrenched. The Soviets tried at least once to penetrate the Rumanian army and encourage anti-Ceauçescu elements; but the effort ended in failure and embarrassment in 1972, when Moscow's apparent man in the Rumanian army, General Ion Serb, was caught and court-martialed...
...diesel-driven ship of the G or Golf class (vintage 1958-62) had long since been made obsolescent by the Soviet nuclear-powered submarines of the Yankee and Delta classes. Nonetheless, in the superstructure behind its tall conning tower, the submarine typically carried three nuclear-tipped missiles of the Serb class, which has a 650-mile range and a 500 kiloton warhead. At the time the SALT I negotiations were about to start, and an examination of the Serb warheads would have given U.S. experts an invaluable insight into the state of Soviet nuclear technology. They could have learned about...
...minded power in western Europe, the last openly multi-national state before the Soviet Union began to try to hold peoples together with new ways and hopes. Austria's ways and hopes were long past their prime in 1914, when the war that finished them began with a nationalist Serb's assasination of the heir to the Austrian throne. The empire's decline was slow and gradual, and so was the rise of new ideas incompatible with it, like the right to national self-determination. But the war that made these changes official was sudden, bloody, traumatic. It gave people...
Most of the dissident groups have been thoroughly infiltrated by UBDA, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav secret police, who could well be interested in keeping Croatian terror alive abroad as a means of disgracing Croatian nationalists at home. The Soviet KGB has also placed its agents among the Croatian terrorists. The Russians' long-range goal may be to turn Croatian nationalism to their own account, in hopes of bringing Yugoslavia back under Moscow's control after Tito passes from the scene. But for the short run, the Soviets could well have a different aim in mind: to prevent the Croats from...
Strange stories were circulating last week about mysterious events in Bucharest. One of them centered on the supposed execution of a Rumanian general named Ion Serb who reportedly was shot by a firing squad for handing over defense secrets to the Russians. There were also reports of sudden demotions. One of the country's most powerful leaders, Vasile Patilinet, lost his important post as the Central Committee Secretary in charge of defense and internal security, and was relegated to the minor job of Minister of Forestry. Two other officials, including the country's propaganda chief, have also been...