Word: politika
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have noticed," said President Tito, "that the newspapers are crammed with stuff they should not contain." What annoyed Yugoslavia's boss was a full-length portrait of a blonde bathing beauty that appeared directly over his own picture on the front page of Politika Ekspres. And then there was that center spread of a nearly nude Carroll Baker that distracted readers from proper appreciation of a front-page cut of Tito surrounded by smiling workers. But the official complaints were notably mild. All Yugoslavia accepts the fact that a frank and breezy tabloid press has become firmly established...
...newspaper styles can be traced directly to the Yugoslav Communist Party's plain and plodding official newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
Crime was supposed to disappear under Communism, and most of the East European press behaves as if it has. But last week Vecernje Novosti featured a fatal stabbing in a Serbian family feud, Politika Ekspres headlined: "READER CAPTURES DANGEROUS CRIMINAL FROM PICTURE IN OUR PAPER...
That gift of choice villa sites on the Adriatic to a handful of movie stars also raised some orthodox eyebrows. "Is it possible that deputies in a commune donate land free to a certain diva when peasants must pay for their water and electricity?" asked Ekonomska Politika. "When the town of Budva gives Sophia Loren a piece of land," it replied, "Loren will shed on Budva part of her world fame, which has an astronomical price. Hotels around her villa will overnight rocket in value, as will the whole town...
Officially, Gromyko's visit to Yugoslavia was in return for a visit to Moscow last summer by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic. Punctiliously, the government newspaper Politika gave Gromyko's arrival precisely the same space that Izvestia had allotted to Popovic. But there was more to Gromyko's appearance in Belgrade than such formalities indicated. On the government level, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have become steadily warmer, even though party propagandists still practice the name-calling inspired by Tito's 1948 split with Stalin. Khrushchev, faced with the new threat of a more serious break with...