Word: yugoslavic
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...current fellow is Psychologist Drazen Prelec, a Yugoslav who is developing a mathematical formulation for B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theories in behavioral psychology. Economist Barry Nalebuff, an M.I.T. graduate with a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, is applying games theory to problems of disarmament. Princeton Classicist Nita Krevans (women were first admitted in 1972) is exploring how the publication of manuscripts changed the way the authors thought about their compositions. Historian Mordechai Feingold is studying early modern intellectual history, including the work of Britain's John Rainolds, who in the early 17th century helped translate the King...
...Castro. At the last summit meeting, which took place in Havana, Castro tried, but failed, to have the conference formally recognize the Soviet Union as the natural ally of the nonaligned. In contrast, last week's meeting returned to the principle established by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1961, when they founded the movement as an organization of nations that wanted to remain independent of the superpowers. Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's quite clear that the nonaligned movement is undergoing a process...
Sometimes the people moved the wrong way, however. Much of the series was shot in Yugoslavia, including scenes of Polish refugees fleeing the invading Nazis. Hundreds of Yugoslav peasants were carefully assembled for the desperate flight, when rain sent them scurrying for home. "They were there with their animals," explains Associate Producer Barbara Steele, "and they weren't going to give their cows pneumonia...
...room apartment in Moscow that is comfortable but not elegant. When Sakharov was invited to visit by Andropov's son in the mid-1960s, the apartment's outstanding features were a stereo system, a sofa and a cabinet of highly polished wood, gifts to Andropov from the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito...
...Vatican is said to have given up whatever hope it formerly held of transforming Poland into a Western-style democracy. As things now stand, the Pope simply hopes that Poland can evolve into a kind of Yugoslav-style Communist state. Some diplomats in the Vatican believe Jaruzelski has the makings of a Tito. The Vatican's strategy thus is to approach the crackdown as an internal Polish matter, and to seek to avoid making it an international crisis...