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...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...
...libertine duke's pleasure, the loveliest courtesans of France performed voluptuous charades. Between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, France's Belle Epoque, the Casino was the luxurious playground of continental nobility. Between the world wars, it went into decline under Director Henri Varna. "Give the public nudes, feathers and spangles. That's all they want," he once said, and the Casino became a second-rate tourist trap until it closed...
...Varna died last year, and the Casino went up for sale. Petit, a journeyman choreographer (and Zizi's husband for 16 years), could not afford to buy the 1,500-seat music hall, but worked out a rental agreement with an option to buy in two years if all goes well. It certainly should. Says Petit: "Our success is fantastic. Everything I have dreamed of has finally come true." Zizi is pleased, of course, but she is too much the Parisian sophisticate to be overly rhapsodic. Pointing to the set's shimmering black St. Laurent curtains, she says...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). On land, sea and in the air: the National A.A.U. Gymnastics championships from Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, La.; the World Invitational High Diving championships from Las Vegas; the International Parachuting championships from Varna, Bulgaria...
...Bulgarian. Coca-Cola is about to enter Eastern Europe, where for years it was considered the very symbol of decadent capitalism. Under an agreement between Bulgaria's Communist government and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, work has just started on a bottling plant in the Black Sea city of Varna that next June will begin producing the first Coke ever mixed behind the Iron Curtain...