Word: yugoslavic
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...common market. Tito in turn seemed determined to suggest that, even if Moscow accepts him wholeheartedly as a comrade, he retain his independence; in doing so he presumably had an eye on Washington, where Congress this week considers whether to restore the previously canceled most-favored-nation rating for Yugoslav exports to the U.S. Cracked a Yugoslav official: "We didn't sign a treaty with Khrushchev as you Americans did. We didn't even play badminton with...
...Seymour was well-acquainted with the politics of the Wilson era. As a young professor at Yale, he was named to the American peace commission in Paris in 1919. He served as chief of the Austro-Hungarian division, and was also a member of the delegation on Rumanian-Yugoslav territorial disputes...
...predawn hours one morning last week, only a few people were stirring in the provincial Yugoslav city of Skoplje, near the Greek border. In the small Hotel Macedonia, facing the railway station, Pilot Aleksander Blagojevic was dressing before going to the airport for an early take-off for Belgrade. Two German girls, tourists from Bremen who were scheduled as passengers on a Belgrade flight, had just left the hotel and were crossing the square to catch the airport...
...Yugoslav Red Cross broadcast an appeal for blood donations, and one of the first donors was U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan, on his last day of duty in Belgrade. U.S. Air Force planes from bases all over Europe flew in with help; one entire U.S. Army hospital was moved to the scene from Germany. Twenty Yugoslav medical teams were rushed into Skoplje, army tank trucks brought in desperately needed fresh water, and volunteer workers signed up to help clear away the debris. At least 80% of Skoplje's buildings were destroyed or badly damaged, all utilities disrupted, and more...
...never fun to break up a vacation and rush home to deal with some problem at the office. For Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it was especially provoking, for he was enjoying some of the world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...