Word: jovanka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting that Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 86, had married Gertrude Minutic, an opera singer 51 years his junior. According to the unconfirmed reports, which surfaced while Tito was on a "mission of peace to the Middle East," he had taken his fourth bride after divorcing his estranged wife Jovanka, 54. A Yugoslav government spokesman angrily dismissed the stories as a "dirty trick" perpetrated by Tito's political opponents abroad...
Well-placed Yugoslavs were putting out two variations on the wedding-march theme. According to one version, Tito has "definitely" divorced Jovanka after 26 years of marriage. In disgrace for the past two years, she has been given a modest flat in Belgrade and a pension befitting a major in the Yugoslav army, the rank she held in Tito's World War II partisan forces. Meanwhile, Tito was smitten with Minutic, a Junoesque blond with a faint resemblance to Actress Anita Ekberg, after seeing her perform last summer. A "serious relationship exists," say the sources, but no marriage...
...second version has it that Tito and Jovanka are still living as husband and wife in the presidential residence in Belgrade. Though the pair have quarreled, Tito is said to be furious at the tales linking him with Minutic. The singer has frequently been seen in Tito's entourage, but she is actually the girlfriend of one of the President's security guards, according to the alternative story...
...hunting: last year the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug solemnly reported that he had shot the largest ibex ever killed in the Slovene mountains. He is also an inveterate movie watcher, favoring westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently incurred Tito's displeasure by promoting the careers of army officers who shared her Serbian background. That kind of partisan behavior is anathema to Tito, a native Croatian, who has held together the six-nation Yugoslav coalition by sternly avoiding any appearance...
...Jovanka was reported to be under house arrest in the presidential residence. Party officials said Tito had approved the investigation of her lobbying, and, obviously, he would decide on her punishment. That might be mild or firm. As one Yugoslav editor commented last week, "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach. At least that's how Caesar feels...