Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran, which retaliates for Iraqi strikes on its tanker routes on a ship-for-ship basis, sent a frigate to raid the Indian tanker Spic Emerald in the southern gulf. The vessel was carrying a Yugoslav-bound shipment of volatile petrochemical called ethylene dichloride, or EDC, loaded at Saudi Arabian ports...
...regime he had helped establish. Djilas' denunciations were eventually published abroad in his articles and books, including The New Class. Djilas was jailed several times, spending a total of nine years behind bars. He was finally set free in 1966, but since then has continued to criticize the Yugoslav government. As recently as 1984 he was detained by police...
...former Prime Minister was saddened by a controversy that erupted in the last year of his life. At issue was whether Macmillan, while serving as a British representative in the Central Mediterranean region immediately after World War II, had ordered more Soviet and Yugoslav refugees returned to their countries, where they faced imprisonment or even execution, than had been called for in the Yalta agreement. While Macmillan never fully explained his role in the affair, he took full responsibility for his actions...
...potentially sour note for Harvard is the uncertainty surrounding former assistant Coach Zoran Tulum. The Yugoslav fencer worked with the Crimson as a volunteer a year ago, but has been unable to attain a visa to return to the United States this year...
...late '70s. And at the party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals with West European firms to obtain factory and telecommunications equipment, as well as diesel trucks...