Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager and seven oarsmen of Yugoslavia's Olympic rowing team, over Marshal Tito, by announcing they would not go home, but hoped instead to find asylum until Canada lets them in as immigrants; in Rüsselsheim, Germany...
...world which was once set afire by a spark in what is now Yugoslavia has learned to take seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged sandbank in the unnavigable Evros River which, in one ten-mile stretch, forms the border between Soviet-dominated Bulgaria and U.S.-protected Greece...
This was not the way pretty, young Mrs. Kavic had thought of freedom. In the single furnished room where she tried to make do on her husband's meager pay, family spats became more & more frequent. "We had it better back home in Yugoslavia," Mrs. Kavic complained to the neighbors. If the neighbors were not entirely convinced, Mrs. Kavic was. Last fortnight she bade her husband goodbye, took her son, boarded a plane and flew back to Belgrade...
Last week, abandoned and disillusioned, Ivan Kavic took another plane and flew off-to Communist Czechoslovakia. "I never regarded my stay in Switzerland as definitive," said the refugee from Tito's frying pan as he left for Stalin's fire. "I only left Yugoslavia because it was too fascist...
...YUGOSLAVIA-Tito sent Edvard Kardelj and Milovan Djilas to the original Cominform meeting. After Tito broke from Moscow in 1948, all three were damned as "lackeys of the imperialists." Disposition: excommunicated...