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DIED. Vladimir Bakarit, 70, vice president of Yugoslavia and the last of Josip Broz Tito's comrades-in-arms still in power; after a long illness; in Zagreb. A Croatian lawyer and a Communist Party member since 1933, he joined Tito's partisan army during World War II and served as its political commissar, later rising to membership in the party's ruling Politburo. Under the rotating system of collegial presidency in use since Tito's death, Bakaric was due to become chief of state this spring...
...international attention during World War II, the mysterious leader of Yugoslavia's anti-Nazi partisan forces was rumored to be a Russian general or even a woman, and there was some question as to whether he existed at all. In fact, he was born Josip Broz, in the Croatian village of Kumrovec. His father was a Croat, his mother a Slovene, and he was the seventh of their 15 children...
Tito alternately loosened and tightened his hold over Yugoslav politics. When his close comrade Milovan Djilas began arguing for democratic reforms and criticizing the Communist Party elite in the mid-1950s, Tito had him jailed. After Croatian nationalism flared up during a period of liberalization in the late 1960s, he came down hard on the Croats and in 1971 forced their leaders to resign. He also launched a purge of liberals, which reminded the world that Yugoslavia was still a Communist nation run by a dictator. Yet by 1977 the trend was again away from the hard line...
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...lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently incurred Tito's displeasure by promoting the careers of army officers who shared her Serbian background. That kind of partisan behavior is anathema to Tito, a native Croatian, who has held together the six-nation Yugoslav coalition by sternly avoiding any appearance of ethnic favoritism...