Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next day Yugoslavia's burly Vice Premier Aleksander Rankovic took up where Tito had left off. Said he: "We are again hearing voices to the effect that we Yugoslavs are 'sitting on two seats,' that we are bowing and scraping before the imperialists in order to get some of their 'tainted goods.' How absurd that is! If we had such flexible spines, they would have bent in 1948 under the powerful pressure of the great propaganda machine turned on them by several countries." In an access of enthusiasm, the congress delegates broke into a song...
...Question of Heresy. The walkout at Ljubljana marked the worst crisis in relations between Russia and Yugoslavia since Khrushchev's crow-eating visit to Belgrade in 1955 to apologize for Stalin's 1948 expulsion of Yugoslavia from "the camp of Socialism." This time Khrushchev himself was wroth, because the draft program which Tito and his colleagues prepared for their party congress blamed...
Russia since 1955. Yugoslavia had all but forfeited the grudging admiration it had once enjoyed in the West, and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic was stating simple truth when he declared last week: "We have no place in either of the existing international camps." The question was, was he bragging or complaining...
...future ahead for his three sons, and thought of fleeing to Australia or America. As a Macedonian, it was easy enough for him to get a pass to visit his sister in her village across the border in Yugoslav Macedonia, but how would he get out of Communist Yugoslavia into the freedom of Greece? Ivanov decided to make over his Chrysler into a homemade armor-plated tank...
Russia has granted Afghanistan loans totaling $106,600,000 to build public projects, India a $115 million loan to pay for Soviet blueprints, equipment and technicians for a 1,000,000-ton-capacity steel mill. Credits for industrial development have been granted to Yugoslavia, Egypt, Indonesia. Russia last week signed a $750 million trade agreement with West Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), has increased its trade with Latin America from virtually nothing four years ago to 8% of the area's foreign trade...