Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...census taken in Yugoslavia early this year showed that 84% of the people still believe in God after nine years of life under Communism. So reported a U.S. newsman from Belgrade last week. At a time of grave political and military defeats for the West, this figure marks a significant spiritual victory. Westerners who complain that they lack an "ideology" to oppose Communism overlook Christianity...
Pocket-sized Albania has always been the most backward of the Iron Curtain countries and to the Kremlin presents the additional problem of being the only satellite isolated from Moscow by unfriendly territory (since the defection of Tito in Yugoslavia). Albania's 1,222,000 people, 70% Moslem, are vigorous and nationalistic. In trying to rule them, the Communists have involved themselves in a succession of purges and intramural rivalries. Last week a long-simmering feud between Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha and its Red police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito, who has learned that one of the penalties of being a dissident Communist is the entertainment of all sorts of inquisitive capitalists, was in the midst of an even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...competition. Says Gauss: "They pay a first-class mechanic 60? an hour, against $2.50 here. As a result, they can deliver a boat, including import duty, at one-third less than we can." European shipbuilders even have U.S. defense orders, e.g., the Navy has just ordered four minesweepers from Yugoslavia for $3,500,000. Snorts Gauss: "Imagine giving the contracts to a Communist country...
...Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa as correspondent. A patient in a Rome clinic, where she was being treated for hypochondria and the sleeping-pill fad, Joanne, lamented young Jaime Patino, "had taken everything-all her clothes, her jewels and my jewels -and gone." In Yugoslavia, on official invitation from Marshal Tito's government, Harold C. McClellan, president of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers, rubbed shoulders with the country's Communists for a fortnight, browsed through Titoland's economy, then headed home with a backward glance surprising for a capitalist...