Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tente -and as such it is deliberately, and at times even infuriatingly vague. The Soviets see it as a mirror of the past, a static definition of their zone of control and influence. But for Western Europe as well as such Communist nations as Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary, it is a dynamic document, a charter for continuing and expanding contacts between West and East. The provisions for a 1977 follow-up are, according to one Rumanian diplomat, "a lifeline...
...Moscow with a formal base for criticizing Western policies. The Russians gradually backed away from this second objective, mainly because they belatedly realized that any security council would direct its criticisms eastward as well as westward. The fact that the two nations most interested in a permanent council were Yugoslavia and Rumania-Eastern Europe's most independent-minded Communist states -was extremely unsettling to Moscow. In the end, delegates settled for the fourth basket's provision for a follow-up meeting in Belgrade two years from...
Capitalism is associated with a high degree of political and social freedom, but that is not a requisite; some economists argue that Nazi Germany was capitalist because most of its industry was privately owned. Yugoslavia, on the other hand, is still outside the capitalist camp because most of its industries are state-owned, even though they compete in a market economy...
...mile-wide DMZ, one of the tunnels 6 ft. high and 6 ft. wide. Even more unnerving to Seoul has been North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung's itinerary since the Communist victory in Viet Nam. Kim made highly publicized trips to China, Rumania and Yugoslavia, in what Seoul sees as an effort to drum up support for another military adventure in the South...
...center of North Korean life looms Kim, head of both government and party and the most durable Communist leader except for Albania's Enver Hoxha (32 years in power to Kim's 30) and Yugoslavia's Tito (32 years). Pictures of the grinning, moonfaced leader are everywhere. Children reverently call him "our father," party officials refer to him as "the sun of our nation" and brides and grooms vow loyalty to him at wedding ceremonies. In Pyongyang, the 95 rooms and 2½ miles of exhibits at the Museum of the Korean Revolution glorify every aspect...