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...centuries, the diverse peoples of the crowded area known as the Balkans have exploded regularly in unspeakably cruel wars, many of which spilled over into areas far beyond their borders. In the process, the Balkans -Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and the European part of Turkey-became famous as a scene of intrigue and espionage. Mystery writers from Agatha Christie to Eric Ambler drew on the area for some of their best plots...
...five political camps: pro-Western, nonaligned, Maoist, and two variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...
...countries that cooperate most closely are Rumania and Yugoslavia, which are drawn together by their fears about Soviet intentions. Officials of both countries are in almost continual consultation. This week Yugoslav President Tito will meet with Rumanian President and Communist Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu on the Rumanian-Yugoslav border, not far from where the two countries are jointly building a huge dam at the Danube's so-called Iron Gate rapids. On its completion next summer, the dam, which will be capable of producing more electricity than Egypt's Aswan, will power new industrial plants...
Another problem is that the area's crucial location as the land bridge between Europe and Asia inevitably makes it a scene of struggle among the superpowers. The Soviet Union, which has never given up trying to bring breakaway Yugoslavia back into the orthodox Communist fold, has an additional goal -a seaport on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian Coast for its big Mediterranean fleet. In a brilliant flanking tactic, China is showing an increasingly protective interest in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the object is to prevent the Soviets from moving freely against either country without having to fear Chinese retaliation against...
...Israeli armed forces may hardly notice the change. Friends since childhood days in Yugoslavia, Bar-Lev and Elazar confounded the Egyptians during the 1948 war by talking over their field radios in Serbo-Croatian. Bar-Lev, a tank man, refined the Israeli army's blitzkrieg tactics as chief of the armored corps between 1957 and 1961. That task was continued by his successor in the post, Elazar, who later led the attack on the Golan Heights during...