Word: tirana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roster of Peking's staunch allies in Europe numbers precisely one- Albania. Accordingly, the Chinese dispatched a high-powered delegation to Tirana last week to help the Albanians celebrate the 25th anniversary of their liberation from Nazi occupation. At the head of the team was a man whose name and background were little known outside Peking until this summer-Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled man in his early 60s who is very likely to become China's next Foreign Minister...
...That was the year that Russia broke with Albania because of Albania's support of Red China in the Moscow-Peking feud; Red China, in turn, quickly stepped in with a life-saving $125 million in credits. "Now," remarked an Italian businessman in the capital of Tirana, "the Chinese are here to stay, and stay, and stay." Fully 70% of the country's foreign trade is with Red China. Chinese movies are shown in the cinemas. Some 7,000 Chinese tractors plow Albania's collective farms. At noon every day in Tirana, Chinese delegations can be seen...
...Hoxha. Whatever hazards may await the Western traveler, he can be fairly certain of one thing: he will never be run over. Only one of every 10,000 Albanians owns a car, and traffic is practically nonexistent. As a result, people stroll down the center of empty boulevards; Tirana is the only city in Albania with traffic cops, who stand idly at crossroads, waiting for the occasional passing...
Floodlit Formal. As Chen Yi left Pakistan, China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived. He had flown to Rumania for the funeral of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, stopped at Tirana, capital of Albania, Peking's most distant and tiniest ally, and jetted on to Algeria and Egypt where he reportedly urged Ahmed ben Bella and Gamal Abdel Nasser not to invite Russia to the second Bandung-style conference of Afro-Asian nations scheduled for June in Algiers. Chou's point: despite its possession of Siberia, Russia is essentially a European country...
Pravda and Izvestia printed friendly articles about Albania, and the Soviet Union dispatched fraternal greetings on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "liberation" of Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great...