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Agrokomerc, like most industrial enterprises in Yugoslavia, was in effect the personal fiefdom of the local Communist Party chief. In this case the boss was Fikret Abdic, 48, one of the most influential figures in the northwestern republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the firm's chief executive since 1967. Stout and graying, Abdic ruled Agrokomerc in imperial style, often issuing $ directives from a villa on the Adriatic coast, to which he commuted, attended by secretaries and bodyguards, in a customized...
...your historical review of Sarajevo, you say that Bosnia and Herzegovina were annexed by the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian empire in 1878. At the Congress of Berlin in that year, Bosnia-Herzegovina was placed under Austro-Hungarian authority by the European powers but technically remained Turkish until the region was annexed outright by the Hapsburgs...
Thus the Games will open on schedule in a mood of well-justified gaiety and self-congratulation among the Yugoslavs. Branko Mikulic, the forceful fist banger who is president of Yugoslavia's Olympic Organizing Committee, and a former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, of which Sarajevo is the capital, guaranteed the complete success of the Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo...
Being an outpost of the Turkish empire meant being of interest to the Hapsburgs' Austro-Hungarian empire, which annexed the whole region known as Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878. The Hapsburgs' new subjects resented them, and many put their nationalist hopes on the neighboring kingdom of Serbia...
Died. Dzemal Bijedic, 60, Premier of Yugoslavia; in a plane crash; near Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The son of Moslem shopkeepers, Bijedic joined the Communist Youth Movement and in World War II fought the Nazis as a member of Tito's Partisans. He became a politician in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was appointed Prime Minister by President Tito...