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...General Nikola Ljubičič, 64, a short, powerfully built Serb, was also a wartime comrade of Tito's. The senior member of the Cabinet, he has served as Defense Minister since...
...embracing national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited for ten hours to pay his respects at the lying-in-state. "For 35 years we lived together, and we had only good things from...
...fearful Western prophecies that after Tito-by force or subterfuge-Yugoslavia might be yanked back into the Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...
...Belgrade's list was Marko Krpan, 26, who was sentenced by a West German court to 10½ years in prison for shooting Yugoslav Düsseldorf Vice Consul Vladimir Topic. But some of the "political terrorists" are considered by Bonn to be political refugees; among them is Nikola Milivevis, who was granted asylum in West Germany since his only "crime" appeared to be that he headed the Catholic Croatian Workers Movement, which had no known ties to extremism...
Such famous figures as the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla and Physicist Michael Pupin come to our memory. So do the names of the violinist and philanthropist Zlatko Balokovic, one of the founders and chairman of the Society of Friends of New Yugoslavia in the U.S.; of Louis Adamic, the author and publicist; Ivan Mestrovic, great genius of sculpture; and many others...