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Thanks to the heavy peacekeeping presence, clashes between the rival groups have fallen off and an uneasy normalcy has settled in. At Mitrovica's Serbian Orthodox church, for example, Father Svetislav Nojic, 64, continues to hold sparsely attended Sunday liturgies, though worshipers must travel under armed guard to get there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years...
...encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying the eavesdropping charge-had admitted that he was "morally and politically" at fault. With Ranković went Secret Police Boss Svetislav Stefanović, 55, whose ubiquitous UDBA spy network had kept a tough, unrelenting grip on Yugoslavia since 1946. In one stroke, Tito had dismantled the entire upper echelon of his secret police-a move unparalleled in the Communist world since Khrushchev destroyed Soviet Top Cop Lavrenty Beria...
...basis of its original purpose to promote international amity. Among those who have needled the Fuhrer over its facilities have been Dorothy Thompson, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Norway's Carl J. Hambro. But none has packed the wallop of cultured, greying, 46-year-old Dr. Svetislav-Sveta Petrovitch, author of last fortnight's appeals to the Yugoslavs...
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