Word: tirana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CULTURAL developments abroad are not ignored. The 1988 Tirana (Albania) World's Fair, with no outsiders allowed to enter the country, "a less-than-celebratory spirit of secrecy and suspicion evidently hovered...
Word filtered out via diplomatic sources all through the duration of Tirana 1988, telling of picture postcard vendors being charged with selling state secrets and picture postcard buyers being shot as spies...(Attractions included) a working naphtha plant, a working olive grove, a working sheep pasture, and a working coal mine, and the International Halls of Sheep Diseases and Head-Squeezing...
Those are just some of the ideas already adopted by a team of Inauguration planners headed by Washington Attorney Bardyl R. Tirana, 38, a Carter campaign aide. The object is to make the incoming President look more like a man of the people than did his immediate predecessors. Between 300,000 and 400,000 guests are to be invited to the Jan. 20 festivities-including virtually everybody who in any way helped Carter on his long march to victory. The prospect gives some cause for alarm (see page 10). But the Carter team hopes those who attend will have...
...heavily relied on as a source of both entertainment and information. Almost every family can afford a cheap transistor, which is able to pick up most of the high-powered stations-including special services of the Voice of America, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Albania's Radio Tirana-as well as local broadcasts. On the night of a speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Cairo streets echo with the sound of his harsh voice...
...from the fjord; defense spokesmen said that such pyrotechnics are a normal method of communication between submarines wishing to avoid radio contact. For another, Norwegian officials disclosed that patrols had made strong sonar contacts with at least one submarine trying to leave the fjord on the night that Radio Tirana asserts both subs did depart...