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...celebrated in a dozen Serbian towns last week as the stafeta, a ceremonial baton, passed through on its annual tour. Carried by relay runners throughout the country's six republics, the stafeta traditionally ends up in Belgrade on May 25 for the official birthday celebration of President Josip Broz Tito. This year the hollow, gold-plated baton contains a special message: "Our desire that you get well is expressed on the lips and resounds in the hearts of all Yugoslavs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Defying Odds | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...part, President Carter declared that the U.S. would be willing to help guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality, along with other nations including the Soviet Union, if the troop withdrawal came first. The gesture came in a cable to President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia; despite his grave illness, Tito had written both Carter and Brezhnev and implored them to preserve detente. The prevailing view in the Carter Administration, however, was that the Kremlin's campaign was a "propaganda exercise" aimed at dividing Western ranks and blunting Washington's anti-Soviet retaliation. Other countries, meanwhile, were getting into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: A Taunt: Kill Us! Kill Us! | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...moment, at least, the health crisis appeared to be over. According to medical bulletins from the clinic at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia's durable President Josip Broz Tito, 87, was "successfully recovering" from the operation early last week in which a team of surgeons had amputated his left leg. His general condition, first reported as good, had progressed by midweek to improving. A photograph released a few days after the operation showed Tito, who has ruled his country uninterruptedly since 1945, sitting in a wheelchair, smiling broadly at his two sons. Because of his age, the critical postoperative period could last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOGOSLAVIA: A Tough Old Bird Recovers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...years, Yugoslavs have known no other leader. Last week they were resigning themselves to the possibility that the end was nearing for Josip Broz Tito, the country's Communist Party chief and President-for-Life. A medical team at a hospital in Ljubljana reported that Tito's overall condition was good. But then the doctors admitted that an operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg "did not achieve the desired effect" and "the condition of the leg was gradually deteriorating." On Sunday morning doctors amputated Tito's left leg below the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tito's Health: A New Worry | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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