Word: yugoslavia
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...than a year until the International Brigades were sent home by the republicans in 1938. In Spain, he served as the brigade's second-in-command, the political commissar. But only a small part of his career as a Marxist actively seeking change was spent in Spain. Born in Yugoslavia in 1904, Nelson emigrated to the U.S. and became a radical worker in the 1920s, soon joining the Communist Party and becoming embroiled in the battles of the American left. As a party member, Nelson agitated for unions, civil rights, unemployment benefits and other "radical" causes, and yet the months...
...Lawrence Eagleburger, 46, to Yugoslavia. This would be a surprise appointment, since Eagleburger, an old Balkan hand, is better known as the right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
After discovering that the "Klaus" who regularly chatted with Frau Hornischer was one of Interatom's leading nuclear experts, Verfassungsschutz agents learned to their alarm that Traube had vacationed for ten days in Yugoslavia in 1975 with Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube...
Offers of aid came from the U.S., Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece and Luxembourg. The Swiss offered to send specially trained dog teams to help sniff out any remaining bodies. But while digging out from the disaster, President Ceausescu still had time to order an investigation into shoddy construction practices revealed by the earthquake on the outskirts of Bucharest, where new and ostensibly sturdy buildings developed glaring cracks in their walls...
...Rents at the Promenade Apartments in Los Angeles, ski-lift tickets in Aspen, Colo., taxi rides in St. Louis, veterinary services in Jacksonville, and treatment in the emergency rooms of Atlanta's hospitals can all be charged on credit cards. So can admission to a nudist camp in Yugoslavia, birth-control counseling by Planned Parenthood of Pittsburgh and funerals conducted by the Parkside Memorial Chapel in New York City...