Word: yugoslaviaâ
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Until recently, the citizens of Sarajevo did not realize that they lacked a bob and luge run?in fact such a marvel did not exist in all of Yugoslavia???but now they have one, on the wooded slopes of 1,629-meter Mount Trebevic, one of the big, round-shouldered hills that guard Sarajevo on three sides. There is also a fine new indoor skating complex, an assertively modern structure with brown, smoked reflecting glass in the entryways and windows and, in the manner of the Pompidou Center in Paris, intentionally exposed ventilation pipes visible outside. Near...
...does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia???Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...
...right-wing military dictatorship, is reeling from a 33% inflation?the worst in Europe. Conservative Switzerland, long regarded as a bastion of financial prudence, registers an almost 12% annual inflation. In the Communist world, government control of the economy makes most price figures meaningless, but one nation?Yugoslavia???maintains a market system, and there, prices are zooming at the rate of 22% a year...
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