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...conclusion that they were the victims of foul play. Industry insiders suggested the film couple had fled from financial troubles. Shin apparently had not made a film since 1975. Years passed with no word of the pair's whereabouts. Then, in 1984, Shin and Choi showed up in Yugoslavia, claiming that they had voluntarily defected to North Korea. The South Korean government insisted that the Pyongyang regime was controlling their movements. But the couple, who produced perhaps as many as six films in North Korea, were apparently free to travel across Europe with incomes of $3 million a year...
...from possible nuclear fallout. After arduous debate, the twelve member nations of the European Community agreed to ban all meat and farm products from East European countries affected by the fallout from Chernobyl. The boycott will remain in effect at least through May. The move infuriated exporters such as Yugoslavia and Poland, which rely on hard currency raised from agricultural sales to pay off foreign debts. Officials in Warsaw were especially angered by a U.S. plan to ship powdered milk for distribution in Poland through nongovernment agencies. Their bitter retort: an offer to send blankets and sleeping bags to private...
...never know precisely what Waldheim knew and did in Yugoslavia when he served in the command center of a notoriously brutal Nazi general, but we do know that Waldheim has, for more than 40 years, lied about his role and we do know that the unit he helped command killed thousands of partisans and unarmed hostages in Yugoslavia and helped deport thousands more Greek Jews to the death camps...
...file, about 40 pages long, listed all organizations to which Waldheim belonged. It showed that in 1938 he joined the Nazi student union in Vienna and the Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary organization better known as the Brownshirts. The file and photographs also placed Waldheim from 1942 to '44 in Yugoslavia and Greece, where he served on the staff of General Alexander Lohr, who was executed in 1947 for war crimes...
...first three seasons, Fusco led Harvard to the NCAA Tournament, and in 1983-'84, he played for the United States Olympic Team at the XIVth Winter Olympiad in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...