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...proconsul than an ambassador. Bazovsky's staff includes high-ranking "advisers" to the Bulgarian armed forces and secret police. Such supervision seems scarcely necessary, however; Bulgaria's Moscow-trained leadership has maintained a tighter grip on its people than any other Soviet-bloc government. Party Leader Todor Zhivkov, 61, who has been in power for 18 years, presides over the oldest Politburo in Eastern Europe (average age of full members: 64). Perhaps that is appropriate for a country where the prominence of yogurt in the diet is thought to promote longevity. The new head of the State Committee...
...deposed reformer Alexander Dubcek. He said that Soviet military intervention served Czechoslovakia's best interests and dismissed foreign Communist critics of the action as having only superficial knowledge of the situation. East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov vigorously defended the Soviet positions. Most likely, the Soviets could be confident that when the conference ends, probably this week, the tally of Moscow '69 will be, in numbers at least, largely in their favor...
...Communist protocol is the hearty hugging and kissing that accompanies every meeting. As they gathered last week in Sofia to review the seven-nation War saw military pact, the Soviet bloc's top bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered the busses...
...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...
...factories freed from the rigid grip of central planning, Zhivkov reported output improved and labor productivity nearly tripled. Partly as a result, Zhivkov was able to promise Bulgarians "TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, furniture"-coupled with a shorter work week (down from 46 hours to 44) and a much needed 7% wage increase across the board...