Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavia's picture-postcard resort of Bled, in a villa once built for the royal family of Yugoslavia, Communist Tito last week signed a 20-year "treaty of alliance, political cooperation and mutual assistance" with Greece and Turkey. Just six years ago, Tito's Yugoslavia was arming Red guerrillas fighting in Greece; a generation ago, Greeks and Turks were deep in a bloody war with one another. The new alliance joined together three nations with more than a million soldiers under arms: Turkey, 450,000; Yugoslavia, up to 600,000; Greece...
Actually, the pact is not as toothy as once intended. Originally, Greece and Turkey would have had to go automatically to Yugoslavia's aid; once involved, they could have demanded assistance from their NATO partners (including the U.S.). But Tito, who is not in NATO, would not have been committed to help Greece and Turkey if they became involved in NATO action away from home. So NATO itself objected. As one official put it, "Marshal Tito is trying to buy a dollar's worth of NATO protection for 50 cents." After much rewording, the pact now calls...
...spent two hours on the ground discussing a maneuver in the air. But they put on an exhibition of fine precision jumping that won them the championship with ease. In second place: the Czechs. Third: the French defending champions. Among the also-rans: Switzerland, Britain, the U.S., Italy and Yugoslavia...
...question be asked. In Europe she is the most famous seven syllables since "Come up and see me some time." She is the girl who, according to. Humphrey Bogart, "makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple." She is the modern Italian (excluding politicians of course) who, according to Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, has made the greatest impression on him. "She is the hottest thing in Europe today," says Moviemaker René Clair. In recent months she has become one of the world's most highly paid actresses (about $100,000 a picture). Last month she won the Silver...
...Yugoslavia, Metropolitan Arsenije Bradvarevic, 71, of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, was sentenced to 11½; years of solitary confinement in prison. The indictment was not published, but the metropolitan's offenses were clear. He had boldly led the fight against a Communist-run front organization of fellow-traveling priests, and had refused to resign his post when the government ordered...