Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West, there are skeptics. Some Soviet scientists consider Professor Zigel to be something of a showman. Yugoslav Astronomer Tatomir Anzelić, in a revealing comment about contemporary Eastern European life, says: "So many people are taking drugs, it's no wonder they are prepared to believe that the Martians are coming." The Poles, who have had an abundance of UFOs but a shortage of meat, are whimsical; they are saying that it is really too bad that the flying platters are as empty as those on earth...
...chance at a prize list worth a mere $200,000, Hungarians last year bought 326 million lottery tickets at an average 20? a ticket. Last week winners of the Czech Artists Trade Union lottery got free trips to the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Louvre in Paris. One Yugoslav physical culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give-I'll give") stands for a while-U-wait...
...Chinese and Russians berate each other for straying from the path of true Marxism-Leninism. Hungarian Communist Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs makes a distinction between the "disfigured Marxism" that is official party doctrine and what he calls "unfalsified Marxism," while the Yugoslav magazine Praxis warns that effective Marxism "must be completely free of party pressure." And Polish Writer Jan Szewczyk muses publicly whether Marxism is "a bolt of Red cloth that anyone may cut in whatever shape pleases...
...nowhere. Nasser refused to compromise because "such a move would encourage future aggression to get further concessions." In Damascus, Tito heard the same. "Imperialist machinery," trumpeted the Baathist Party's daily Al Baath, "is conspiring to produce peace. The Arab answer is: never." In Iraq, Aref told his Yugoslav guest that Israel would first have to with draw unconditionally from Arab soil, then there could be peace-maybe. By week's end Tito had shelved his proposals, and was leaking word to newsmen that he had not really come with "concrete proposals" at all; he was "simply taking...
...Egyptian cannon fired again last week, this time in welcome to one of the Arabs' staunchest friends, Josip Broz Tito. When the Yugoslav President's plane arrived in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser warmly embraced his 75-year-old visitor. Then, after reviewing the Egyptian honor guard, the two leaders drove off to Nasser's presidential palace for three days of talk about war and peace...