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Tony is as smart, wily and manic as ever, but now he's a man with a mission: to dismantle his own company. Which doesn't thrill his longtime, avuncular, head-shaved partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges). No matter: Tony has never taken "Don't" for an answer. Like a geek in a Silicon Valley garage, a knight smithing his own armor, Tony retreats to his workroom to build himself a new casing. And he won't make Dr. Frankenstein's mistake of using shoddy materials. This will be no stitched-together, run-amok creature. It can't be Tony...
...Stane Dolanc, 54, a tough, Stane Dolanc, 54, a tough, widely traveled Central Committee member from Slovenia who is considered by some to be the party's ablest and most ambitious behind-the-scenes politician...
Actually, the congress accomplished one thing relevant to Tito's serene prospect. It rubber-stamped a revamping of the Communist league's leadership, reducing the party's presidium from 48 to 24 members and confirming Slovene Stane Dolanc, 52, as its secretary. Thus Dolanc was reappointed as a member of Tito's inner circle of advisers, and in the long term, he could be a possible successor. In the short term, the front runner for Tito's title as President is Edvard Kardelj, 68, preeminent among eight members of Yugoslavia's collective state presidency...
Less Dependent. These arrests were accompanied by a massive and tightly coordinated campaign of anti-Soviet publicity and official speeches aimed at the Kremlin. The unmistakable message: there are limits to Yugoslavia's tolerance of Soviet interference. At a recent meeting of the Presidium, Party Chief Stane Dolanc denounced "Cominformists" as "traitors to our country." Another Party leader spoke balefully of "black clouds of Stalinism hovering over the horizon." The Yugoslav press has published a host of articles apparently designed to educate younger Party members about the nature of the 1948 dispute with Moscow. The past six issues...
...national fervor. He reportedly aroused Tito's ire last year by warning him against rising Croat separatism before Tito was ready to acknowledge it. Other prominent Serbs who resigned under pressure were Serbian Central Committee Secretary Latinka Perović and Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. The premier of Slovenia, Stane Kavćić, and a Serbian member of the Presidium, Koca Popović, resigned voluntarily out of sympathy. Vague charges of "anarcho-liberalism" were leveled at those purged. Still Tito's tough action delivered the message to the Serbs and the Slovenes that they had no more claim...