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...riot at the U.S. embassy. But the Russian response was mild compared to the Khrushchevian blasts of 1960 (when Lumumba was deposed) and 1962 (when the U.N. went into Katanga). For all their relative softening toward the West, the satellites kept pace, with embassy riots in Prague and Sofia...
Tape-Recorder Youth. In Sofia, nearly 6,000 colorful, balconied high-rise apartments stand in bright contrast to the peeling Soviet barracks of the past. And the crowds that throng the Boulevard Russki, though dressed for the most part in shoddy, overexpensive suits from the nightmarish ZUM department store, are clearly well fed on their beloved dobrudza-the white bread that provides 60% of the average Bulgarian's caloric intake...
Arguments in favor of increased reliance on the profit motive appear regularly in the party theoretical journal, Novo Vreme, and although the economy is still predominantly controlled by central authorities, a pilot experiment in decentralization proved outstandingly successful last year. The Liliana Dimitrova textile plant in Sofia was permitted to work out its own production plan, obtain its own materials and dispose of its own goods with a minimum of higher direction. Not only did the plant exceed its planned requirements, but by the year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage...
Glass of Champagne. Harking back to his favorite dream, De Gaulle saw in the misty future a far bigger Europe than most of his contemporaries could imagine. "We must envisage the day," he declared, "when, perhaps, in Warsaw, Prague, Pankow, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Tirana and Moscow, the totalitarian Communist regime which still succeeds in keeping these peoples locked up will gradually come to an evolution compatible with our own transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe...
When he was transferred back to Sofia, said the charges, Georgiev remained in the service of the imperialists. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while...