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It is a warm summer day in the hills of northern Transylvania. There is little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes...
Gypsy wagons rolling down a main road, plows pulled by oxen, and other Bruegelesque scenes lend charm to Romania, Hungary and the rest of the East bloc. But be prepared for inconveniences and overcrowding.
Western diplomats disagree about whether Moscow is apt to cut substantially its $15 million-a-day subsidy to Havana. The handout, after all, is not pure charity, since the Soviet military derives enormous benefits from having a beachhead in the Western hemisphere. In recent months, the Soviets have delivered two...
Dreamed up as an "epic" and "historic" way to celebrate 100 years of statehood, the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive turned out to be an epic logistical headache and a historic huckster's delight (kitschy western "art" and $3,000 gold-plated Winchester rifles for sale). To allow 2,400...
One of the most noticeable of the leathery wagoners is Dave Bald Eagle, 70, a Northern Cheyenne and rancher who has clopped along with the 32-vehicle western train for 40 days. Bald Eagle, who intends to see the train out to the finish, dons his ceremonial regalia when the...