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...postwar world are gone-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle. This week, barring a last-minute change in plans, a VIP helicopter will touch down on the south lawn of the White House and out will step a statesman who has earned a place alongside those formidable figures: President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia...
...President Tito in the movie Sutjeska. So was Tito. "I think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman doctor, a partisan who was badly wounded, had both legs amputated and died later," said Burton. But nothing came...
...soon as Brezhnev stepped from his gleaming Ilyushin Il-62 jetliner at Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through...
BREZHNEV IN BELGRADE: With Brandt back home, Brezhnev is scheduled to call on Yugoslavia's President Josip Tito in Belgrade this week. The talks will provide an important clue to Soviet intentions toward the independent-minded Yugoslavs. Will Brezhnev, in the interests of European detente, accept Yugoslavia's unorthodox experiments in political and economic decentralization? How will he deal with Yugoslavia's flirtation with China...
...moment was superbly stage-managed. Just as the chairman of Yugoslavia's Federal Assembly finished his announcement that Josip Broz Tito had been re-elected as the country's President for the sixth time, a side door was flung open. To a crescendo of applause, Tito himself stepped into the crowded marble-walled chamber. Deeply tanned, smiling broadly and dressed impeccably in a white tropical suit, he looked remarkably...