Word: varna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying young ballerina Niki in last year's cinema flop Six Weeks, Katherine Healy, 14, might have been hesitant about dancing again in public. Not a bit of it. The New York City native was back on her toes most recently at the celebrated International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where she became only the second U.S.-born gold medalist. The first, in 1974, was Fernando Bujones, 28, who is now an established American Ballet Theater star. Healy has been rumored to be interested in A.B.T. too, but she says it is premature to make any such choice...
...anarchy that almost toppled the Turkish government in 1979. According to Israeli intelligence officials, more than 1,000 Palestinian terrorists have been trained in Bulgarian camps over the past decade, and all the heavy armaments used by the P.L.O. in Lebanon were shipped from the Black Sea port of Varna. Nicaragua's former Ambassador to the U.S. Francisco Fiallos Navarro last week revealed that Bulgarian advisers "have a very important role in economic planning in Nicaragua...