Word: yugoslavia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peter Tetlow, a member of the Australian national team that competed in the World Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia over the summer, may be as versatile as Yntema. A distance freestyle specialist, he can also swim the IM and the butterfly. Another freshman. Brent Haywood, a high school All-American in the 200-yd. breaststroke and 200-yd. IM, can swim distance freestyle as well...
...year later, he went back to Hamilton, then to Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where he earned a B.A. in business administration. He and a girl friend took off for five months of thumb-tripping and odd-jobbing in Yugoslavia. He returned to get a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University and decided to become a spy. He went to Washington to offer himself to the CIA, but it was 1953, the McCarthy era, and after one look at his record, "the guy at the CIA laughed and told...
ISRAEL, LIEUT. GENERAL DAVID ELAZAR: Nobody in Israel has been more contemptuous of the Arabs' military capacity than this longtime protege of Israel's respected former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev. Born in Yugoslavia, like Bar-Lev, Elazar, now 48, went to Israel in 1940, soon joined the Palmach, the strike force of the underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted...
...fedayeen, hunched in the captured VW with a grenade on the dashboard and the terrified hostages cowering behind them, finally wore down the Austrians. After several hours of negotiations, Chancellor Kreisky authorized a light plane to fly the two fedayeen to Yugoslavia. The plane subsequently flew to Dubrovnik and on to Sicily, Sardinia and Malta while the terrorists tried desperately to gain permission to land in Libya or Algeria...
...movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became convinced that there is "no room for a free spirit" in the U.S.S.R. and flew with relief to London to prepare for the filming, to take place soon in Yugoslavia...