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...well as Bulgaria, has caused Khrushchev some embarrassment with its insistence on the ugly Berlin Wall. Yet this month, when Bulgaria celebrated the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, Nikita did not bother to attend. Last week East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was in Bulgaria commiserating with Premier Todor Zhivkov, 53, who certainly deserved better than a cold Khrushchevian snub...
...buttons they received as souvenirs. Said one diplomat: "It was almost a demonstration." The regime fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years of stalling the U.S., Sofia finally agreed to a settlement involving more than $3,500,000 in conflicting commercial claims. Reason: Bulgaria badly wants...
...Bulgaria, 200 African university students on Communist scholarships marched down Sofia's Lenin Boulevard toward the office of Premier Todor Zhivkov to protest government restrictions. Instead of sympathy, they were met by 600 Bulgarian militiamen, who flailed the Africans with clubs and hauled them off to jail. All the students had asked for was permission to maintain an all-Africa Student Union...
Noisy Interruption. There were even more serious turbulences in Bulgaria. The country's Red boss Todor Zhivkov was back from his trip to Moscow scarcely 24 hours when he told the opening session of a party congress in Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face...
...Czechs, the leading arms dealers in the Soviet bloc, and stayed three hours. Next day he had a 40-minute talk with Nkrumah. Meeting Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Castro agreed to exchange ambassadors. He received visits from India's Nehru and from Bulgarian Red Boss Todor Zhivkov, but paid only one call on fellow Latin Americans, attending a Uruguayan reception. Said Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa: "Of all the men Dr. Castro met, next to Khrushchev, he felt a bond for Nasser. Nehru is weak. Not Nasser-he really...