Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...
Denying that there had been anything sinister about their activity, the two Britons insisted that they were innocently plane-spotting. "It's just a hobby, like collecting stamps or old coins," said Mason at his trial in Sarajevo last week. The Yugoslav judges were not persuaded. They found the two young Britons guilty of spying and sentenced them each to four years in prison...
When Torvald tells her that he could not, as man, sacrifice his honor for love, there is a silence as if the shot fired at Sarajevo had just been heard the world round. Then Nora turns to the camera with a real smash below the belt, "Millions of women have." She looks like a continental Uncle Sam jabbing his recruiting "We Want You" finger straight into your stomach. Imagine how this fired the moral fervor of the ladies in the suburbs of Detroit...
When Yugoslavia's President Tito entered Sarajevo's magnificent new cultural and sports center last week, the 2,300 delegates to an economic conference cheered wildly and gave him a standing ovation. Then, as he strode to the rostrum beneath portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and himself, the throng broke into the war-time song of the Yugoslav partisans, "Comrade Tito, we give you our word, we shall follow...
...Yugoslavia. Dedijer did not go to prison, but he was drummed out of the party. Under the pressure of this persecution, his 13-year-old son committed suicide. Since then, Dedijer has spent much of his time abroad, where he has researched and written books, including The Road to Sarajevo, a penetrating study of the events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. No longer a formal Communist but still calling himself a "utopian Communist," Dedijer remains on friendly terms with Tito; they share the unbreakable bond of having been wounded in the same battle...