Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that many of the competitors who wanted to go to Moscow could scarcely afford to spend a week away from their jobs. But A.A.U. officials, who also know the pleasures of junkets abroad, proceeded to plan a full-blown four-week tour anyway, with meets in Stuttgart, London and Warsaw, following the Moscow competition. The result: nine men, nearly one-fourth of the 41-man U.S. team, reluctantly refused to make the trip. "The A.A.U. works for the A.A.U. on these trips," growled Olympic Discus Champion Al Oerter, one of the defectors. He spoke from bitter experience...
...hard worker. Scarbeck was well liked by embassy hands; about 30 of them went with him to the Warsaw airport last fortnight when he was ordered back to Washington for what seemed a preparation to transfer to Naples. In Warsaw Scarbeck seemed to care little for politics, enjoyed music and taking drives with his family through the Polish countryside. But he had at least one other consuming interest: a petite Polish brunette who wore Parisian-style clothes, hung out in the better Warsaw cafes and was in fact in the pay of the UB, the Polish secret police. Scarbeck...
More recently, said Hoxha, "Malinovsky [Soviet Defense Minister] attacked the government and the party during the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...
...Pals. Hoxha's performance was a devastating revelation of the strains within the Communist bloc, leading some Western experts to suspect that little Albania may by now have been tossed out of the Warsaw Pact and isolated from the rest of Moscow's family. Recently, five Soviet submarines moved out of the Adriatic and were sighted moving through the English Channel en route to Russia. Western intelligence experts are not yet sure of the significance of the move, but they consider it conceivable that the Russians may have decided to shut down their big sub base and shelters...
...POLISH: Ashes jaid Diamonds is a powerful and ironic farewell to arms, set Poland in the days just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom A welcome break in the lowering skv comes with Eve Wants to Sleep, a zany cops-and-robbers farce, whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife...