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...Borba (Belgrade)-Compared with the press of other Communist nations, that of Yugoslavia is highly critical, discursive and intellectually lively. Borba manages to relate its stories to the daily affairs of its citizens and is not loaded with dry statistics. Its team of foreign correspondents is probably the best in Eastern Europe...
...does the public always seem to know what it wants. In Houston, for example, 54% of KHOU's callers felt that the U.S. should end its involvement in Viet Nam; but a few nights later, 73% voted in favor of escalating the war. Said Program Director Dean Borba: "We're not quite sure what that means." James Pederson, secretary of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, feels that it means that "the polls aren't worth anything." He should know: he voted 80 times in a poll that pitted Johnson against Reagan-and the President still lost...
...drastic change in newspaper styles can be traced directly to the Yugoslav Communist Party's plain and plodding official newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
...enrichment of artisans, and excessively high taxes were levied against them." He suggested the matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system of socialist economy...
Kennan has conducted a running feud with Borba, the party sheet, and the government daily Politika. (He reads five papers in three languages daily.) "Shocked" by consistent distortion of events in the U.S.-which has pumped $2.1 billion in aid into the country, with its allies takes 60% of all Yugoslav exports-Kennan has fired off five angry letters to the papers. Their editors were flattered to be addressed by Professor Kennan, failed to print the letters, but last fortnight Borba's editor in chief paid him the rare honor, for a Westerner, of giving a dinner party...