Word: yugoslavia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that, the Hungary trip, which resulted from five years of negotiations, was a well-calculated breakthrough. Graham's only previous preaching in a Communist nation was a low-key appearance ten years ago in nonaligned Yugoslavia. The Danube tour was also a historic occasion for Graham's official host, Hungary's Council of Free Churches. It represents 50,000 Protestants, who are not only overshadowed by the major Reformed and Lutheran bodies in Hungary, but very much a minority in a country that was two-thirds Catholic at the time of the Communist takeover...
...Much credit was also due to some skillful mediation by nine neutral and nonaligned nations (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The " NNs," as they were dubbed adroitly provided many of the phrases and even the punctuation of the agreement their own desire (which coincided with Washington's) for a full-scale conference this fall...
...immediate target of Soviet wrath is Spanish Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo. In tones reminiscent of Moscow's strident broadsides against Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in the late 1940s and '50s, and China's Mao Tse-tung since the '60s, the Soviet weekly New Times blasted Carrillo, his new book Eurocommunism and the State, and the whole notion that Marxist societies can be established in Western Europe that would be independent of the Soviet Union...
...clearly a signal both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting for a sign from Moscow...
...pleasantly of the importance of a bill that seems to be in trouble. A foreign policy adviser is just leaving after discussing the ten-day trip that will take Fritz Mondale through a series of meetings this week and next with the heads of state of Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia, Austria, Great Britain and South Africa...