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Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling that reached a climax last fall when 30,000 students went on strike in Zagreb. Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists demanded their own army and airline, and separate membership...
...Croats have been charged with such serious political crimes as "attacks on the social and state order" or "spreading hostile propaganda." Nearly 1,000 more have been expelled from the party, a drastic punishment in any Communist country, and another 1,000 reprimanded or demoted. Last month, the chastened Croatian League of Communists expelled the former chairman of its central committee, Dr. Savka Dabcevic-Kúcar, and Croatia's former representative on the federal collective presidency in Belgrade, MikoTripalo. A district court in Zagreb is preparing to prosecute 44 student leaders and eleven prominent Croatian intellectuals later this summer...
...stiffest sentences of all, as high as five years and nine months, were recently given to three Croats, including one Roman Catholic friar, who were convicted of collaborating with Croatian nationalists abroad. There are probably no more than 1,000 active political agitators among the 235,000 Croats who live and work outside their homeland, principally in labor-short West Germany and Sweden, but those 1,000 manage to stir up more trouble than almost any other nation's migres. They are divided into rival groups, variously espousing antiCommunist, anti-Tito and anti-Serbian views, but sharing a common derivation...
...most extreme and violent dissidents have set up headquarters in Sweden. Croatian terrorists assassinated the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm last year, claimed responsibility for blowing up a Belgrade-bound airliner and a train headed for Zagreb in January, and planted a bomb at the Yugoslav tourist office in the Swedish capital in March. Swedish tourists have begun to shun Yugoslavia, particularly after one group promised to plant more bombs on planes flying to Belgrade this summer...
...came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe, RFE's audience is impressive: 78% of all radio-listening Poles, 81% of the Hungarians, 77% of Rumanians, 78% of Bulgarians...