157, 160, 171;
structure, 3, 137;
supremacy over all aspects of Bulgarian life, 156, 184, 276-277;
women members, 160, 168

Bulgarian Hunting and Fishing Union: 277

Bulgarian National Library: 187,199

Bulgarian Red Cross: 167, 277

Bulgarian Telegraph Agency: 186-187

Bulgarian Union for Physical Culture and Sports: 277

Bulgarian Union of Tourists: 277

Bulgarians abroad: 55, 272

Bulgars: 9, 10, 11, 52

Burgas: 47, 54, 57, 62, 199, 227, 250, 254, 255

Byzantine Empire: 9, 10-11, 12-17 _passim_

Canada, relations: 178

Carpathian Mountains: 38

caves: 40, 47

Central Leninist Party School: 121

Chelopets: 259

Chervenkov, Vulko: 3, 34, 35, 113, 115, 153, 159, 160, 161, 186

China, People's Republic of: 35, 160-161, 189

citizenship: 272

civil defense: 167, 275-276

civil rights: 142, 186, 283, 285-286

climate: vii, 37, 42-44, 226

Committee for Science, Art, and Culture: 106

Committee of Bulgarian Women: 168-169

Committee of State Security: 36, 271

Committee on Art and Culture: 125, 140, 155, 198, 199

communications. _See_ mass communications

Communist Party. _See_ Bulgarian Communist Party

Congress of Berlin: 2, 22

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON): vii, 171, 176,
179-180, 240; trade with, viii, 180, 222

Council of Ministers: vii, 4, 106, 137, 138, 141, 142, 144, 145-147,
218-219, 220;
administration of ministries, viii, 5;
agricultural programs, 228, 238;
Department of Motion Pictures, 201;
establishment, 139;
functions, 5, 140, 145-147, 173, 174, 204, 205, 216, 235-236, 250,
261, 274;
legislative initiative, 32, 140, 141;
organization (chart), 146;
police power, 146

Couve de Murville, Maurice: 178

crime: 190, 269-270, 273, 279-282;
criminal code, 282-283;
death penalty, 283, 298;
economic, 281;
juvenile, 280, 294;
military, 297-298;
penalties, 280, 283;
political, 142, 269, 270, 274, 280-281, 283

Crusades: 13

Cuba: 117, 180, 222

currency: viii, 14, 219-220;
exchange rates, 219, 221

Cyril: 11, 126

Czechoslovakia: 106, 172;
Bulgarian students, 117;
relations, 175, 222;
Soviet invasion, 1968, 155, 189-190

dams: 42

Danube River: viii, 41, 44, 54, 61-62, 227;
as boundary, 49, 50;
Iron Gate, 38, 62;
patrol boats, 273, 291

Danubian plateau: 38, 39, 41, 43, 226-227;
population dens