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Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito hurled the first challenge to East bloc unity; his country was ceremoniously expelled in 1948 from the Cominform, the Moscow-dominated alliance of Communist states, for pursuing an independent foreign policy. Thirteen years later, Albania effectively withdrew from the Warsaw Pact...
...Insiders complained that top managers seemed to be chosen for their tailoring and the virile timbre of their voices rather than for their administrative skills or financial savvy. Rockefeller appeared to be off frequently, polishing his reputation as a world statesman by visiting Yugoslavia's late President Josip Broz Tito or the Shah of Iran...
...living artificially. I don't want to live like Tito," the 60-year-old Shah had said shortly before his death from complications of lymphatic cancer two days earlier. Attendance at his funeral was far different from the international tribute paid last May to Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito. The Shah had expressed the desire for "a very simple funeral." But Sadat insisted that he be buried with military honors. Egypt's President skirted a potential boycott by announcing that no other national leaders would be invited. In the end, alongside the Shah's widow Farah...
...possibly bitter summit, Carter made a two-day stopover in Rome on the way to Venice and planned three days of sightseeing, fence mending and felicities afterward. The first stop: Yugoslavia, where he would try to make amends for his much criticized decision not to attend President Josip Broz Tito's funeral last month. Next: Spain and Portugal, as a way of celebrating their evolution from dictatorships to democracies...
...principal residence at 15 Uzicka Street, in the hilltop suburb of Dedinje overlooking the capital. He had asked to be buried there. To the strains of the Internationale, the coffin was placed above ground in a white marble vault bearing a stark inscription in raised gold letters: JOSIP BROZ TITO, 1892-1980. He had died just three days before his 88th birthday...