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...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 of the Yugoslav League of Communists. Its chairmanship is currently occupied by Doronjski, a Serb from Vojvodina province, whose term runs until October...
...than half of the huge G.O.P. primary vote. Reagan, as he had in Illinois, appealed to them with unexpected effectiveness. Like Kennedy, he campaigned for only two days in Wisconsin, but his advancemen turned out big crowds. He became the first G.O.P. presidential candidate in memory to appear at Serb Hall in Milwaukee, a hallowed rallying place for ethnic Democrats, and wowed a beer-drinking, blue-collar crowd with simplistic conservative appeals. He pledged to "whack away at the fat, extravagant Government in Washington." Listeners cried, "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...
...balance, however, Ceauçescu remains well entrenched. The Soviets tried at least once to penetrate the Rumanian army and encourage anti-Ceauçescu elements; but the effort ended in failure and embarrassment in 1972, when Moscow's apparent man in the Rumanian army, General Ion Serb, was caught and court-martialed...
...diesel-driven ship of the G or Golf class (vintage 1958-62) had long since been made obsolescent by the Soviet nuclear-powered submarines of the Yankee and Delta classes. Nonetheless, in the superstructure behind its tall conning tower, the submarine typically carried three nuclear-tipped missiles of the Serb class, which has a 650-mile range and a 500 kiloton warhead. At the time the SALT I negotiations were about to start, and an examination of the Serb warheads would have given U.S. experts an invaluable insight into the state of Soviet nuclear technology. They could have learned about...
...minded power in western Europe, the last openly multi-national state before the Soviet Union began to try to hold peoples together with new ways and hopes. Austria's ways and hopes were long past their prime in 1914, when the war that finished them began with a nationalist Serb's assasination of the heir to the Austrian throne. The empire's decline was slow and gradual, and so was the rise of new ideas incompatible with it, like the right to national self-determination. But the war that made these changes official was sudden, bloody, traumatic. It gave people...