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Speaking before 80 Communist Party delegations in Sofia, Bulgarian Party Boss Todor Zhivkov declared that "conditions are ripening" for a conference ,of all loyal Leninists to read Red China out of Communist society. Added Brezhnev: "The leaders of China are more and more submitting their policy to narrow nationalist aims...
Sure enough, when Zhivkov and Brezhnev raised the hint of a conference again last week, they came under a barrage of counterfire. Snapped Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu: "Nothing should be done to deepen the divergencies and increase the threat of a split." The Italian and North Korean delegations were equally outspoken in their opposition, while Yugoslavs, Poles, Cubans and North Vietnamese maintained a stony silence. The only big parties to endorse the idea were those of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France...
Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin's foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European...
...Zhivkov obviously means business. To bring in foreign currency, his government has relaxed visa requirements, and Western tourists are flocking in. In the capital of Sofia, where the population has almost tripled (to 800,000) since 1940, new Western-style apartment buildings are sprouting, and Western cigarettes and liquor are becoming plentiful. Three weeks ago, Bulgaria even staged an international trade fair, buying more than $45 million worth of Western wares...
...Bulgaria; and last month Renault signed a $50 million deal for an auto plant 100 miles east of Sofia. Last April, after Bulgaria and France signed a new agreement that will triple trade between the two countries, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville visited Sofia and invited Zhivkov to visit France. Zhivkov was happy to oblige...