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...most preposterous counterview of the week was expressed in Sofia, where Todor Pavlov, a member of the Bulgarian Politburo, declared that "the entry into Czechoslovakia by the fraternal Socialist armies saved the peace in Europe," and brazenly proposed that they be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this accomplishment...
...Sternau are still in an East German prison. Their story was much the same as Marion's. After reaching an agreement in Amsterdam with Huivenaar, they were taken to West Berlin last April, introduced to Loeffler for final instructions, then taken to East Berlin. There, at the Hotel Sofia, they gave their passports to one of Loeffler's accomplices, who passed them on. When the two Dutch boys reported to police that their passports had been lost, they were arrested immediately, because the documents already had been used by Loeffler's clients. The two boys were sentenced...
...puzzling case, young Sigi. He was one of those comets in the musical sky that turn out to be meteors, burning out and falling below the horizon. Born in Sofia, he studied under Bulgaria's foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...
...same time as the Moscow demonstration was going on, W.R.I, teams in Warsaw, Sofia and Budapest went into action. All the protesters were arrested as they handed out their leaflets. In Moscow, Miss Rovere and Papworth were questioned for more than five hours, then deported unceremoniously to London next morning. Poland expelled its five Danes almost as quickly. But Hungary and Bulgaria were not so hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations...
...many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid a rushed visit to Sofia...