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...warming atmosphere that has drawn Eastern and Western Europe closer, one frigid holdout has been Bulgaria. Now, the tiny Balkan nation is also thawing a bit. Last week Todor Zhivkov, 55, Premier of Bulgaria and the brisk, burly first secretary of its Communist Party, made his first official trip to Western Europe, spending three days on the French Riviera and three more in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle...
Bulgarian Premier Todor Zhivkov came, together with Soviet Deputy For eign Trade Minister Boris A. Borisov and Polish Government Observer Eugeniusz Zadrzynski. Technicians from science academies, state banks, government offices and such industries as Skoda, Bata Shoe and East Germany's Carl Zeiss optical works not only probed and photographed the equipment but brought along actual problems for the computers to solve...
According to gossipy Communist sources outside Bulgaria, it all stemmed from a plot aimed at removing tubby Premier Todor Zhivkov, long the staunchest friend of Moscow in all Eastern Europe. While General Anev's men occupied the capital's key bridges, communication centers and the airport, other plotters-supposedly to be led by Todorov-Gorunya-were to invade the Central Committee and arrest the eleven-man Politburo-including Zhivkov. But Soviet counterespionage agents got wind of the coup just in time...
...brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
Pilot Experiment. Indeed Bulgaria has been among the slowest of the satellites to "liberalize" in the vital area of personal and artistic freedom. Premier Zhivkov prides himself on the "social realism" of his painters and writers -party hacks in the main. Unlike Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians remain vigilant and hard-handed in controlling public expression. But in one critical area, the economy, Bulgaria has proved as "liberal" as her neighbors...