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...Croatia was allowed to keep a far larger share of the foreign currency that it earns from Western tourists. By then, however, a dangerous momentum had developed. To pressure the central government into making greater concessions, Croatia's Communist leaders-notably Miko Tripalo and Dr. Savka Dabčevič-Kučar, the woman Central Committee chief-allied themselves with groups making extremist demands for what would have amounted to secession. Pockets of Croatian exiles, who are active in Western Europe, Canada and the U.S., also began to agitate for independence...
...Tito's subsequent crackdown in Croatia, Yugoslav officials claim that the eleven accused ringleaders of the alleged conspiracy were plotting a full-scale general strike as a prelude to an uprising in support of Croatian independence. Meanwhile, some 400 Communist officials, including Tripalo and Dabčevič-Kučar, have been purged from their posts, and more firings may follow. The trials of the conspirators will probably begin in March...
...Control. Croatia's Communist leaders, most notably Dr. Savka Dabčević-Kučar, the brilliant woman economist who for the past three years has served as chairman of the Central Committee, seemed either incapable or unwilling to halt the separatist agitation. In fact, some observers suggested that committee members secretly welcomed the agitation since it forced the Belgrade leaders to grant even more concessions to Croatia...
They took the hint. Two days later, in an unusual televised session of the Croatian Central Committee, seven ranking leaders, including Dr. Dabčević-Kučar, confessed their shortcomings and handed in their resignations. At Tito's behest, one of his old associates from partisan days agreed to supervise the rebuilding of the Croatian party. He is Vladimir Bakarić, 59, who is a member of the Executive Bureau in Belgrade, which is the party's equivalent of a collective federal presidency. He favors greater economic and political autonomy for Croatia but within the framework...
...letter to Ford did not question Pell's right to withhold commissions, although it stated that "There is evi- dence that in doing so he violated University practice and procedure by basing his decision on irregular and improper requirements...