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...Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling pressure from Moscow...
Shouting Match. The revival of the bloc system brought scant comfort to one country that is perilously caught both geographically and ideologically between the two blocs. It is Yugoslavia, whose President, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, not only was the first Eastern European ruler to achieve his independence from the Soviet overlordship but also served as an inspiration to Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek in his ill-starred search to find a measure of freedom within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West...
...formidable power as a huge and populous sovereign state. As the defender of Communism, moreover, the Soviet Union long could do no wrong in the eyes of its followers the world over. The image of Russia as the ideological motherland was buffeted by the defiance of Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, the invasion of Hungary and the unseemly quarrel with Communist China-but the Soviets have up to now managed to maintain their ideological primacy. Now, after three weeks of continuing protest among Communists abroad over the invasion of Czechoslovakia, there is a serious question about how long Russia...
Galvanized NATO. As the Rumanians prepared to resist (see following story), so did the Yugoslavs, though a direct Soviet attack on the premier rebels of the Communist camp seemed ruled out by geography. Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Ceausescu conferred on common defense plans in the event that both nations should be struck simultaneously. Tito then canceled all army leaves and recalled some army reserves. Yugoslav tanks, in a pointed show of force, rumbled through Belgrade and moved into position along the Bulgarian border. Together, the Yugoslav and Rumanian armies total some 395,000 men. Most Yugoslav observers doubted...