Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West, has formed 225 since 1967. One of the largest: a $62 million auto-parts plant co-owned by General Motors. In Belgrade the first McDonald's in Eastern Europe has been drawing more than 2,500 customers daily since it opened its doors last month. Says Pedrag Tostanic, Yugoslav managing director of the joint venture: "At all times I have people lined up outside my door waiting to get in." A highflying East- West business opportunity opened up two weeks ago, when COCOM granted Boeing preliminary approval to sell its jets to Soviet satellite countries...
Evidence of Waldheim's wartime activities came to light in 1986, when he was running for the Austrian presidency. Newly discovered records showed that during World War II the former U.N. Secretary-General had served on the command staff of a German army group whose units murdered Yugoslav civilians and arranged the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim has admitted to his army service but denies that he knew about or participated in any war crimes. In February a commission of international historians, after studying the evidence, found no proof that Waldheim was guilty of war crimes...
Young Communists vacuum-clean the streets, and workers paint green leaves on trees. Monuments are scrubbed with Yugoslav shampoo, and telephone lines cut by the Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium...
...Austrian President did win a victory of sorts last week when the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported that a 1942 telegram that allegedly dispatched Yugoslav civilians to transit camps on Waldheim's orders was a likely forgery. But that must have been cold comfort to Waldheim, who has found that while he can try to forget his past, others will...
...alleged evidence was unveiled last week by Yugoslav Historian Dusan Plenca, 63, who has spent more than 40 years studying the World War II campaigns in his country and has published seven books on the subject. Says he: "As far as I am concerned, Kurt Waldheim's role on Mount Kozara has been proved." Plenca has turned over his Waldheim documents to Yugoslav Journalist Danko Vasovic, who plans to publish them in the spring. But Vasovic apparently could not wait to spread the news. Last week he sold the publication rights for the controversial telegram and other materials...