Word: sremska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped publishing eight months ago when Tito angrily denounced its cries for reform, have just come out with a new issue that is no less defiant than before. About the least penitent of all the authors punished by Tito is Mihajlo Mihajlov, 33, who last week was led from Sremska Mitrovica prison to face his third trial in two years for "spreading hostile propaganda against the regime." Mihajlov presented a defense that was pure heresy-and for his pains was found guilty and sent back to prison for another four years...
...economic reforms (currency devaluation, reduced price controls) designed to foster competition on the world market, a Communist since student days who escaped from an Italian concentration camp to join Tito's partisans in 1943 and marched with them to power; when his car skidded into a tree; in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia...
...Marshal Tito has known few with the prickly persistence of Milovan Djilas, his onetime Vice President, close friend and confidant. Djilas has been sniping at Communist repression since the early 1950s, and for his efforts he has spent 81 of the last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free once again. For how long...
Since that day, Milovan Djilas has sat alone with his thoughts in the gloomy old Sremska Mitrovica prison.* The prisoner may not have changed, but Yugoslavia had. Tito had promised the nation many of the reforms that Djilas had advocated. The constitution, due in 1962, would, as Tito himself put it, feature "man as a producer and manager while the state should appear only as a coordinating factor...
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