Word: yugoslavians
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...pickers and American Negro folk singers take their turns with such musicians as a Sudanese oud player and a Japanese painter who sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...
...imported at a low duty within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge to bring in canned Yugoslavian horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost 3,000,000 lbs. of beef from South America by sending it first to Ireland and Australia, making false bills and shipping it on to Germany; the swindle was discovered when someone forgot to extract...
...emergence of Ben Bella, the 43-year-old son of a peasant, as strongman of the Algerian revolution. Since independence in 1962, Ben Bella has elbowed out virtually all his fellow "historic chiefs" of the long guerrilla war against France. Earlier this year his staff, with help from Yugoslavian* and French advisers, drew up Algeria's first constitution. Approved by the Ben Bella-controlled Assembly last month, the country's Magna Carta pronounced the Ben Bella-controlled Front to be the nation's supreme "guide"-and its only legal political party...
Yugoslavia diplomatic relations with Albania are "all but broken," a press attache from the Yugoslavian embassy said Wednesday night. He cited Albanian guerrillas operating in Yugoslavia and a barbed-wire frontier as two causes of the tense situation...
...convoy to bring fuel into freezing communities, and the nation's serious unemployment problem worsened as farms and construction firms laid off tens of thousands of workers because of the cold. In Paris, the French Cabinet ordered that priority on coal deliveries be given to the aged. As Yugoslavian factories began to shut down for lack of heat, coal miners went back into the mines on Sunday. Rome's city water authority told consumers to leave their taps on at night to prevent them from freezing; in London, 1,600 frozen water mains burst. Maternity nurses...