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Most Yugoslavs can travel freely to Western nations; President Tito himself has severely handcuffed the once-dread ed secret-police apparatus; and the re gime is openly encouraging a measure of economic and local political compe tition. But there are still some limits to liberalization, as Writer Mihajlo Mihajlov discovered last week. A Yugo slav court sentenced Mihajlov to ten months in jail for writing uncompli mentary things about the way Tito runs his country...
...Mihajlov's offense was to suggest that Yugoslavia needed a two-party system - and to set about promoting an oppo sition party complete with its own mag azine, Slobodni Glas (The Voice of Freedom). As he told the court in his own defense: "I cannot consider social ist a society in which only 6% or 7% have all the rights and the others none...
...Mihajlov's demand for a multiparty system, he warned the court, was "a Trojan horse for the restoration of capitalism...
...first English translation of the pseudonymous Soviet critic Abram Tertz. Last week with its September issue, the magazine was again on top of a literary cause célèbre. It printed the first English translation of the open letter written to Tito in July by Mihajlo Mihajlov. The letter politely explained why the Yugoslav writer felt that he must persist in his intention to found an "opposition newspaper." Four weeks after writing it, he was arrested (TIME...
When the cops hauled Mihajlov away last week, his friends said that they would carry on without him. Their defiance would have earned a bullet 20 years ago in Tito's dictatorial heyday. Tito has mellowed since then, but he still must draw the line somewhere. His plight is that of all post-Stalin Communists: how to satisfy a people's craving for liberty and not be swept away by the rush toward freedom...