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...silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security police swooped down on them in their hotel and deported them before they could get near the conference hall. In Manhattan, three Croatian terrorists barricaded themselves inside the Yugoslav mission to the U.N. in an attempt to publicize their national aspirations...
Michael Bilandic: The acting mayor, a Croatian millionaire, said last week he would be available for a draft despite the pledge he made to retire from politics when he finishes up as acting mayor. Bilandic would be a dull candidate but he has Daley's bratty sons and many of the late mayor's friends on his side...
...council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council would now lose 50% of its voting strength...
...Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...
Last month's hijacking of a TWA jet by Croatian terrorists produced a blizzard of passenger testimonials to the humanitarianism, calmness and intelligence of the captors. "I realized there was a lot to admire in all of them," said Los Angeles TV Consultant Rudy Bretz. "They were idealists who proved that they had a just cause." Even the pilot was so pleased with the performance of the lone female hijacker, Julienne Busic, in preventing panic, that he gave her a big hug as police took her away...