Word: yugoslavic
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...noted that a new Yugoslav constitution, which he expects to be adopted within the next two months, "reaffirms our stand and policy of non-alignment." He insisted that it is an "active" nonalignment, "not an escape from responsibility. We are not sitting on a fence milking both sides...
...snow covered Bulgaria, and in Greece army units roamed the countryside with hay for starving livestock. Ice clogged both the Mississippi and the canals of Venice; a blizzard snapped a power cable in the Bosporus, halting all shipping between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Along the frozen Danube, Yugoslav dynamite crews blasted lanes for boats and barges...
...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
Officially, the two-week visit was billed as a vacation, but it was obvious, from the big delegation of Yugoslav economic and political experts who accompanied the boss that Tito had more in mind than a suntan at Sochi. Among the subjects: more aid, more trade. Forgotten for the time being: the bitter, angry recriminations of the past...
...outcome of Britain's painful negotiations with the Six. And a dozen other countries, most of which have no prospect of ever joining the Common Market, regard the market's developing single-tariff wall as a piece of economic aggression. "We see only this," wailed a Yugoslav government economist last week. "Our exports are being choked...