Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most highly fortified and guarded pieces of real estate in Europe is a patch of ground where the borders of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece meet in the wild Belasica Mountains overlooking the Struma and Strumica river valleys, one of the historic invasion routes to the Aegean Sea. There, one sunlit morning last week, Greek Lieut. Vassili Arkoudas, on duty in the most forward of the Greek outposts, was startled by the sound of heavy antiaircraft fire...
...Constellation was on the regular weekly flight from London to Israel via Paris, Vienna and Istanbul. Because Communist Bulgaria's borders are closed to all but Communist aircraft, the flight course normally follows a twelve-mile-wide corridor across Yugoslavia and takes a sharp dog leg around southwest Bulgaria, before flying across Greece to Turkey. The man who originally charted the course for El Al, Captain Stanley Hinks, 35, was at the controls. Among his passengers were twelve Americans, all New Yorkers on their way to visit friends and relatives in Israel. Captain Hinks's last message, radioed...
...prove that it is possible, he had his air experts put together a jet fighter with parts cribbed from all over Europe. Tito then asked Britain, France, Italy and the U.S. for rights to produce aircraft under licence. But Yugoslavia is a peasant country and lacks the skilled labor to make jet planes. Since the U.S. economic aid program is designed to provide Yugoslavia with a well-balanced and well-timed economic expansion, the U.S. politely refused Tito's request. It also continued to shower down on Tito F-84 jet fighters, T-33 jet trainers, reconnaissance and transport...
...also stop them if they want to." At the same time a story was noised about Belgrade that six high Yugoslav air force officers, on their way to Moscow to attend a Soviet air force celebration, would negotiate with Russia for the right to manufacture MIG aircraft in Yugoslavia...
...known members of the group, as it performed at Prades, were the Metropolitan Opera's Jan Peerce and Eleanor Steber. Singing as a substitute for Eileen Farrell, Soprano Steber was much impressed by Prades' rarefied musical atmosphere. Said buxom Singer Steber, just back from a tour in Yugoslavia : "I almost got raped there. But here - such purity...