Word: sutjeska
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...medical school he had a romance with a classmate, Ljiljana Zelen, the daughter of an old and wealthy family. Karadzic married Ljiljana, and they lived in a downtown apartment building at 2 Sutjeska Street, where her parents also resided. Some of Karadzic's friends thought his new wife was unattractive and domineering. "We never understood why he married her," says one. "Maybe it was the typical calculation of a poor peasant boy. She could provide him with housing, food and money." Karadzic pretended not to notice his comrades' disdain and called Ljiljana his "Creole beauty." They have two children...
Actor Richard Burton was rather nervous about his new role ("the most responsible and challenging of my career") as Yugoslavia's President Tito in the movie Sutjeska. So was Tito. "I think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman...
...regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through to the safety of a great oak forest beyond the German lines...
Next afternoon, with Nasser at his side, the Yugoslav leader told 50,000 cheering old partisans gathered on the Sutjeska battlefield: "No one can break us." Nasser himself, by visiting Tito at this point, was making the most audacious affront to the Soviets he had ever risked. According to Cairo scuttlebutt, Nasser returned from his recent 17-day state visit to Russia bored by too many banquets and somewhat unimpressed. He also came home with no more Russian rubles, though reportedly the kind of Russian help he likes most-complete diplomatic backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble...
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