Word: yugoslavia
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...Nowhere else in the Communist world, with the exception of Yugoslavia, does a Western correspondent have such broad access to the people and institutions that make a society tick," he says. "And nowhere in the Communist world do people speak their minds more freely. That's what makes Poland unique in the Soviet bloc-it is so open and its people so vibrant. That's also what allowed the incredible feat of workers' facing down a Communist regime to take place here...
...loan in the hope that the vacation season would get Icelandair aloft again. But the tourists did not return. The company also attempted a merger with Lux-air, Luxembourg's airline. That also failed to take off. Now Icelandair is negotiating to sell its elderly Boeing 727s to Yugoslavia, and it has leased its DC-10 to Air Florida. Like the flower children it once served, Icelandair is left mostly with memories...
...their walls than about profits." Insiders complained that top managers seemed to be chosen for their tailoring and the virile timbre of their voices rather than for their administrative skills or financial savvy. Rockefeller appeared to be off frequently, polishing his reputation as a world statesman by visiting Yugoslavia's late President Josip Broz Tito or the Shah of Iran...
...then, Mercready and Carter were working as consultants for the World Bank. In February 1978 the bank sent Mercready to Yugoslavia to advise the government on a highway planning project. In November the bank sent Mercready to Seoul to determine the best locations for twelve new wholesale marketplaces in the city. The World Bank paid the two-man company at a daily rate of $180 for Mercready and $150 for Carter, sums in line with normal consultant fees. The total payments were $6,600 in fiscal...
...with living artificially. I don't want to live like Tito," the 60-year-old Shah had said shortly before his death from complications of lymphatic cancer two days earlier. Attendance at his funeral was far different from the international tribute paid last May to Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito. The Shah had expressed the desire for "a very simple funeral." But Sadat insisted that he be buried with military honors. Egypt's President skirted a potential boycott by announcing that no other national leaders would be invited. In the end, alongside the Shah's widow...