Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin-born Robert Murphy was sent to North Africa early in World War II to persuade the proconsuls of Vichy France they must not seriously oppose the impending U.S.-British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet assurance of the expert troubleshooter, Murphy conferred briefly with U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, then set off for London to talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Britain's "good offices" representative, Middle East Expert Harold Beeley. Though...
...Along Yugoslavia's wild coast of Dalmatia, the test of a man is his ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
Munnich gives Hungarians little to look forward to. A founder of Hungary's Communist Party and long a resident of Russia (he holds both Hungarian and Russian citizenship), he has been a stolid Moscow servant for decades. As Hungary's postwar ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, Russia and Yugoslavia, he avoided involvement with the dangerous infighting inside the party, concentrated on Tokay wines, women and his rose garden...
...University, is no newcomer to the fair business. President and founder of America Abroad Associates, whose directors have staged more than 50 big trade shows, he set up the first postwar International Auto Show and the first International Toy Fair in New York, was U.S. representative to the Zagreb. Yugoslavia fair in 1951. The Russians expect 3,000,000 people from all over Russia and the satellites to attend his month-long U.S. fair...
...YUGOSLAVIA. Tito has signed agreements for about $450 million in nonmilitary aid -more than Russia has granted any other non-satellite nation. But in contrast with their usual practice, the Russians make little attempt to disguise the political strings attached to their offers to Yugoslavia, have pointedly frozen credits already agreed upon when displeased by Tito's diplomatic posture. (One consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the Russians first agreed to supply credits for it in August 1956, construction of a $175 million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest...