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...broker an honorable deal was also headed to town Thursday: Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance of a foreign peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Draskovic may have been a lone voice in the cabinet...
...what it all might lead to, was evident from the get-go. Brisbane flew lobsters, kiwi fruit and its mayor from Australia to East Berlin for a 1985 I.O.C. meeting, then hired a hotel staff from across the Wall to cater. The lunch tab was $1.9 million. Sofia's bidders, who had put out a meager $50,000 buffet, trudged glumly back to Bulgaria. (As if even Brisbane had a chance! The competition that season included Barcelona, Samaranch's hometown. Guess...
DIED. TODOR ZHIVKOV, 86, Bulgarian communist leader whose 35 years in office, the longest of any East bloc ruler, resulted largely from his acquiescence to Moscow; in Sofia. Zhivkov was ousted in a bloodless 1989 coup condoned by Gorbachev, but left the nation with a $10 billion foreign debt...
...life over there." Not only have I become a prime object of my parents' pride, but I have also (by word of mouth, seemingly) become an image of success. I left home at 14 to go to the first private high school in the country, the American College of Sofia, where I spent three years, after which I won a scholarship to represent Bulgaria at the Armand Hammer United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico. Two years later I was offered a scholarship by Harvard-Radcliffe...
...Sofia Chaudry, a Boston University junior, said: "I really think there should be more speakers like her in a University environment, because we're all here to learn...