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...your husband, this your child." Kleoniki was forced into the battle of Vitsi. She deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas' abduction plans. They hid the children in ditches. The guerrillas, frustrated, took Sofia Makri and 20 other mothers to the mountains and tortured them. Said Sofia last week: "They hung us from pine trees. They burned our feet with coals. They beat us. When we fainted they revived us with cold water from the spring. Fourteen of us died up there...
First it was Bulgaria's charge d'affaires who had the riot act read to him. Dr. Peter Voutov listened silently for 15 minutes while Under Secretary of State Jim Webb demanded an end to the nonsense of trying to implicate U.S. Minister Donald R. Heath in Sofia's espionage trials. Then Hungarian Minister Imre Horvath was summoned to the State Department, dressed down in terms he could barely understand (because his English is poor). For closer study, he got a formal protest note to be sent to his government...
...floodlights in the Sofia courtroom came up full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...
Died. Traicho Kostov, 52, ousted Communist Vice Premier of Bulgaria; in execution by hanging; after a Communist purge in Sofia...
...three days, the Bulgarian press was too dumfounded to mention Kostov's defiance. Then Moscow's Pravda reported that the startling words of the "despised Anglo-American spy" with the "thieving eyes" had aroused great indignation. Taking their cue, Sofia papers expressed great indignation at Kostov's "impudence...