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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...
...important members of the group's national council: Classics Professor Revilo P. Oliver of the University of Illinois, a Birch theoretician with views far out even by the society's standards,* and Slobodan Draskovich, a Yugoslav émigré who heads a Chicago-based group called the Serbian Cultural Club. Oliver and Draskovich accused Welch of leading the society away from its basic aim of militantly combatting Communism into a purely educational role. "The fight has gone out of Mr. Welch and the John Birch Society," says Draskovich. "The society is becoming increasingly frustrating to its members...
Hints of trouble had been rumbling through Belgrade for months. Last January the Serbian Central Committee darkly warned of "chauvinistic, nationalistic, localist interferences" with Yugo slavian economic reforms. In February, President Tito himself struck out against unnamed party members who were "sabotaging" the nation's future. Who were the villains obstructing the dramatic social and economic changes that have swept Yugoslavia over the past decade? Last week they were revealed...
Goulart managed to wangle an invitation for Tito to visit the booming inland city of Belo Horizonte. But that, too, was canceled in disgust by the governor of Minas Gerais state when he heard that Yugoslav security men insisted on the arrest of every Serbian and Croatian refugee in town. In desperation, Goulart wound up driving Tito 130 sweltering miles to the raw and sprawling town of Goiania, a must on nobody's list-only to be greeted by a row of grim, silent priests, each holding a crucifix wrapped in black crape...
...Yugoslavs were not. They found it virtually impossible in some areas to obtain the services of a plumber or electrician. To get a pair of shoes repaired today takes a month. Belgrade's famed candy and pastry shops are nearly all closed, and the state-baked pita-a Serbian pastry filled with fruit-is no edible substitute...