Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial in a crowded Sofia court room, Georgiev, 56, confessed to a double life of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which he said provided him with $200,000, three secret bank accounts in Switzerland, and a harem of mistresses at home and abroad. In return, Georgiev said, he tipped off the CIA to Communist strategy at the U.N., supplied secret intelligence about the Sino-Soviet split. He was so good at his job, Georgiev reported modestly, that the CIA gave him a diploma for efficiency, and the courtroom audience tittered when the ex-diplomat said he once asked...
When he was transferred back to Sofia, said the charges, Georgiev remained in the service of the imperialists. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while...
Prague has erupted in two race riots within two years. Last February in Sofia, Bulgarian militiamen wielded clubs against 200 Ghanaians who were marching down the main street demanding nothing more than their own campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive...
...exhibition of U.S. plastics in Sofia last month drew up to 20,000 people a day; throughout the capital, Sofians proudly wore the plastic buttons they received as souvenirs. Said one diplomat: "It was almost a demonstration." The regime fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years...
...arrival of Africans has created race problems in several parts of the Communist world. There was trouble in Prague last year. At Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, 500 African students are carefully segregated from Russians; three months ago in Sofia, 600 club-wielding Bulgarian cops cracked the skulls of African students who were demonstrating for nothing more than their own campus organization...