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...KOVIC, age 19, lies paralyzed in a Veteran's Administration hospital. He can feel nothing below his chest. He will never again walk nor make love to a woman: his condition is permanent and without hope. A "Yankee Doodle boy born on the Fourth of July," he had gone to Vietnam in defense of the American dream and to fight the scourge of communism. He has returned not as the conquering hero, but as a cripple, his spinal cord shattered by a volley of rifle fire. The young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president...
...convention's last day, there were some tears in the Garden during the poignant, if a bit bizarre vice-presidential nomination of Fritz Efaw, 29, who had avoided the Viet Nam draft by living in exile in London. Seconded by Ron Kovic, a paraplegic casualty of the war ("I am the living dead"), Efaw made a plea for a broad amnesty for all Viet Nam service evaders before withdrawing his name...
Last year Yugoslavia underwent a series of events unprecedented under a Communist regime. Tito signed a protocol with the Vatican, purged-and then reprieved-his leading reactionary lieutenant, Aleksandar ("Marko") Ran-kovic, and released from 41 years in prison his archcritic, liberal Author Milovan Djilas. In the first such defiance in a Communist state, Slovenian party members bucked their boss, State President Janko Smole, over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important...
...miles northwest of Belgrade, was built (the story goes), and many people came to visit its inmates-who included, between World Wars I and II, such distinguished members of the subsequent Communist government of Yugoslavia as President Jbsip Broz Tito, successive Vice Presidents Milovan Djilas and Alexander Ran-kovic, and late Assembly President Mosha Pijade. The Communists had such an easy time of it in Mitrovica jail (Tito swotted up on Stalinism, Pijade , translated Das Kapital and smuggled it out to a printer) that when they took over, they made certain that their own victims had no such advantages. Visits...