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Even as he lay dying, the cumbersome machinery of succession he had devised to provide an orderly transition of power went into effect. Koliševski, a Macedonian and longtime Tito loyalist, chaired Cabinet and other government meetings. Koliševski was acting as one of the first beneficiaries of the "collective leadership" plan incorporated into Yugoslavia's 1974 constitution. This plan established a state presidency of eight regional and presumably equal members, who are supposed to rotate as chairmen each year. Tito also set up a companion 24-member system for the party Presidium, the highest body...
...crowd of angry Liberians shouted insults and hurled rocks last week at the body of their assassinated President, William Tolbert, which had been dumped in a mass grave alongside 27 other victims of a predawn coup d'état the previous weekend. Pockets of loyalist resistance remained; there was at least one fight between opposing military factions. For the most part, however, the new government, led by a natty master sergeant named Samuel Doe, 28, appeared to be in firm control...
...guard. As his control of the campaign increased, he became more remote and uncommunicative. At Reagan rallies, he would stay off to one side chain-smoking, not bothering to mix with the rank-and-file volunteers anxious to meet the brains of the campaign. Said a Reagan loyalist: "You never felt you could just walk in on Sears with a problem. He rarely smiled and when he did, it was always manipulating. We were all amazed at the Christmas party when Sears came in and started talking socially with us. We always felt he was the cruiser and we were...
...upon Tito's death. He would serve until May, when another committee member would take over. Tito's functions as party chief were carried out by the current chairman of the 24-member Presidium of the ruling Yugoslav League of Communists, Stevan Doronjski, 60, a colorless Tito loyalist from Vojvodina province. Both Koliševski and Doronjski had traveled to Ljubljana two weeks ago to visit with Tito at his bedside; it was announced that they attended a special meeting of the State Presidency to discuss what were described as "organizational issues" and "issues of constitutional jurisdiction...
...heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance with the Communist Party and his opposition to NATO earned him the Stalin peace prize in 1951; he repudiated the award five years later...