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...unexpected summons. The usually aloof Chinese Foreign Ministry had invited Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, 47, for a chat. Over Indian tea, the woman in charge of the press section recited some Mao-thoughts. Then she got down to business. Bogunovic had to leave the country for writing "distorted and slanderous stories about the Chinese Cultural Revolution." After filing 2,500 stories from Peking since 1957, Bogunovic hastily collected his wife and boarded a train for the Soviet Union...
...Shanghai and Shenyang, northbound trains were suddenly clogged with unaccustomed passengers. For a fortnight, trainload after trainload of Soviet technicians and their families have been leaving for home with all their belongings -but without any farewell fanfare in the press or happy fraternal rallies at the station. Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, who sent out the story of the exodus, wrote: "The official explanation is that the Soviet experts are leaving after the expiration of their contracts. But other versions are circulating in Peking which throw a different light on the matter...
...loud did the clamor become that it reached at last to Tito himself. In Belgrade, Government Spokesman Branko Draskovic announced coldly that Tito's U.S. visit "will not take place for the time being because the conditions and atmosphere created in the U.S. in connection with it have shown that the time for such a visit is not ripe...
...story was making the rounds last week in Belgrade's taverns. It concerned a legendary gypsy named Branko, who was trying to get into the Communist Party. "Well," he was told, "if you join, you will have to put aside all thoughts of wine, women and song." Branko nodded gloomily. "Beyond that," the party man went on, "you might even be called upon to give your life if the party demands it." "Well, why not?" sighed Branko, signing the pledge. "Who in hell would want to keep a life like that anyway...
Communist has found, like Branko, that life as a party member is not all slivovitz and skittles. The Zagreb congress officially decreed that henceforth, the prime mission of Yugoslavia's Communists was not to command but to persuade. In one swoop it sent down the drain the hopes of all those who had joined the party in search of prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors...