Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debilitated is the dollar that some Europeans -- not just the jet-set crowd, mind you -- are dropping in on New York City just for a weekend, blitzing the stores along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and queuing up for Broadway shows. "We've been to Majorca, Crete and Yugoslavia," says one of the whirlwind invaders, Phil Stevens, 43, a carpet fitter from Britain. "But," he crows, "America is so cheap this year...
...ventures in the East bloc has surged from just five in 1981 to 166 last year. Hungary leads the Soviet bloc in joint ventures, with 140 formed since 1972. Western firms are allowed to own the majority share of a venture in Hungary, and sometimes receive generous tax breaks. Yugoslavia, the first East European country to seek joint ventures with the 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...
Gorbachev was clearly irritated when, just as he was leaving for a state visit to Yugoslavia last month, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya carried a sharp attack on glasnost. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports, he concluded that Ligachev was behind the attack and reacted by stripping him of some of his powers over the Soviet press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other...
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was on the road again last week, this time bringing his trademark style of personal diplomacy to Yugoslavia, a nonaligned Communist country. His primary goal during the five-day trip was to improve relations with Yugoslavia, which was cast out of the Soviet orbit by Joseph Stalin in 1948 for taking an independent political line. In a speech to the National Assembly, Gorbachev apologized for the "great harm" caused by Stalin's "unfounded accusations" of disloyalty against Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's longtime leader, who died...
...Yugoslavia's collective leadership is faced with a faltering economy and growing ethnic tensions, problems that also confront Gorbachev at home. Nonetheless, while he constantly referred to his principles of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness), Gorbachev refrained from suggesting that Yugoslavs adopt Soviet policies. A communique issued at the visit's end affirmed the right of the two nations to pursue "different paths of socialist development...