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...Bobby Fischer is an American primitive. He has no home. He lives out of two enormous plastic suitcases and a couple of shopping bags crammed with transistor radios and chess periodicals in eight languages (English, Russian, Dutch, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, French). The radios are for digging the latest Motown sounds. The literature is for those little off moments. Like the time after his victory over Larsen in Denver, when some chess buffs dragged the two players off to a nightclub featuring operatic singing. While the performers trilled and boomed, Fischer sat buried in a chess book, oblivious...
...invaders were members of the Ustaše, a fascist organization that had ruled Croatia under Hitler during World War II, and has agitated from abroad for Croatian secession ever since (TIME, June 5). The raiders were believed to have been recruited from right-wing Croats now living in Western Europe and Australia. Making a mockery of Yugoslavia's border security, they crossed illegally into the country from Austria on June 26 with an arsenal of submachine guns, rifles with telescopic sights, pistols with silencers and a portable radio station. They stole a truck from a mineral-water bottling...
...mini-invasion took place at an exceptionally tense time for Yugoslavia. The government's announcement that it had routed the raiders came two days before four young Croat nationalists were to have gone on trial in Zagreb, the Croatian republic's capital. Although that trial has now been postponed until August, a second trial, involving seven other youths, began last week. Both groups are charged with instigating last year's strike by 30,000 students at Zagreb University, and plotting to separate Croatia from the Yugoslav federation by force...
...also turned Sweden into an arena of terror for fellow Yugoslavs. They have taken to Mafia-like extortion, demanding payoffs of $400 or more from their countrymen, many of whom have become Swedish citizens. One young Yugoslav actor who recently played the lead in a Swedish television drama about Croatian terror, suddenly found that he was playing the role in real life; he was threatened with death, evidently for exposing the dark side of Yugoslav emigre politics, and was placed under police guard...
Most of the dissident groups have been thoroughly infiltrated by UBDA, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav secret police, who could well be interested in keeping Croatian terror alive abroad as a means of disgracing Croatian nationalists at home. The Soviet KGB has also placed its agents among the Croatian terrorists. The Russians' long-range goal may be to turn Croatian nationalism to their own account, in hopes of bringing Yugoslavia back under Moscow's control after Tito passes from the scene. But for the short run, the Soviets could well have a different aim in mind: to prevent the Croats from...