Word: yugoslavia
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...summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into competition its most balanced and impressive team ever, one that stars the 1983 world's top-ranked man and woman skiers as well as America's ever formidable skaters...
Among them is Atlanta Correspondent B. J. Phillips, who has been with U.S. figure skaters and will follow them to Yugoslavia...
Fuji stung Kodak by outbidding the American company to get the title of official film for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Kodak struck back by acquiring the right to have its film named the official one for both the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
...maintain their power. The same thing happened in Cuba and all over Eastern Europe; internal strifes paved the way for revolutions. But they didn't necessarily create a monolith; once established, these minority dictatorships develop peculiarities and national quirks, and often turn away from the grandaddy Soviet Union. Yugoslavia is a good example of this, and China, too. North Korea has added a fascinating variation: apparently strongman Kim's eldest son is the heir apparent to the head spot. This quasimonarchic arrangement is certainly anathema to main-line Marxism...
...thousand policemen fanned out in a nationwide search, but in all likelihood the culprits had already escaped to Yugoslavia or Austria, both just 2½ hours from Budapest by car. Although the fame of the paintings will make them all but impossible to sell publicly, some unscrupulous private collectors may relish acquiring them clandestinely. Authorities have already described the loss to Hungary's cultural heritage as "incalculable." The same term might apply to the negligence of the museum. Officials admitted last week that the poorly guarded paintings had not even been insured against theft...