Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have given him some reason to worry in the form of bitter propaganda attacks by the Soviet and Warsaw Pact press and furtive attempts to subvert Tito's control over the rival ethnic groups in his country. As a result, Tito has tightened his internal-security system and reactivated his World War II partisan system, which fought the Nazis to a standstill. In addition, he has ordered war supplies to be stashed away in the country's formidable mountains, and has massed his army along the likely invasion routes...
...about Yugoslav troop deployments. Journalists from Warsaw Pact countries are more inquisitive than ever. Hungarian truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group of anti-Tito Croatians were found shot to death in their Munich office, and other Croatian exiles put the blame on Tito's secret service...
Besides its ethnic and racial tensions, the precinct is also a hunting grounds for muggers, who roam its subways, tenements and littered alleyways. Compounding the problem are the hippies, who have taken over the East Village area. There are also scores of "plastic (artificial) hippies," who come only on weekends or during school vacations and then go back home...
Patchwork Life. Willis Mosby shares Braun's detachment, if not his ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...other ethnic groups, who have not had the double stigma of color and slavery, the Statue of Liberty has been a mother," he said...