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Zhivkov obviously means business. To bring in foreign currency, his government has relaxed visa requirements, and Western tourists are flocking in. In the capital of Sofia, where the population has almost tripled (to 800,000) since 1940, new Western-style apartment buildings are sprouting, and Western cigarettes and liquor are becoming plentiful. Three weeks ago, Bulgaria even staged an international trade fair, buying more than $45 million worth of Western wares...
Rumanian Trade Minister Gheorghe Cioara has just finished a nine-day tour of West Germany. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu is headed for Rome, and Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki for Sweden. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville in recent weeks has popped up in Warsaw, Sofia and Bucharest. Fortnight from now Charles de Gaulle goes to Moscow...
...went from stop to stop. In Budapest, discussions with Hungarian foreign ministry officials and a visit to Cardinal Mindszenty; in Sofia, trade talks with Bulgarian economists and a chug-a-lug of the first cold Coca-Cola from a new bottling plant. Then back to Warsaw to prepare his report. Gronouski's summation: "There hasn't yet been a great deal of change [in Communist economic systems], but there is a great deal of thinking. With one exception-Rumania-the countries I visited are experimenting with new economic reforms. That gives more room for individual initiative and opens...
...mused M. Who would that baggy Bulgarian be, prowling up Bond Street, slipping into pubs all over town and quietly haunting the men's clubs? A job for 007? Quite. Sofia Author Andrei Gulyashki, 51, celebrated behind the Iron Curtain as Communism's answer to Ian Fleming, was in London to do a little spying on "James Bond's town" and gather background for his new counterespionage epic, Avvakum Zakhov Meets James Bond. Chunky Gulyashki made it no secret that Communist Superagent Zakhov, armed mainly with "strict logic and a superior mind," will try to defeat...
...seemed to jibe with the recent appearance of anti-Russian slogans on the walls of Sofia, particularly an inscription reading "Za Levski"-a reference to Nationalist Leader Vasil Levski, hanged by Bulgaria's Turkish overlords in 1873. It would seem that Bulgaria, like the rest of Eastern Europe, has been infected with nascent nationalism. As one official tut-tutted last week in explanation of the upheaval: "There are black sheep in every flock...