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Djilas' pardon was part of a new forgive-and-forget policy that the Yugoslav President suddenly seems to be favoring. Last month Tito also pardoned another former Vice President, Aleksandar Ranković, who, as the country's security chief, had not only plotted an anti-Tito conspiracy, but actually went so far as to bug Tito's home and office...
...homebred critics, Yugo slavia's 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...
...exchange for his freedom, Bel grade sources say, Djilas promised "not to make trouble" for Tito. He will keep away from Western correspondents "as much as possible" and perhaps even go into hiding for a while. But will he give up his political writing? "His life is politics," a Djilas friend once commented. "You might as well ask him to stop breathing...
Even on a lesser scale, economic sanctions have usually backfired. Moscow's attempt to elbow Marshal Tito into line in 1948 only forced the Yugoslavian Communist leader to turn to the West for trade-and drove him further from the Stalinist camp. The Organization of African Unity's solemn pledge to boycott all South African goods has been a joke: Zambia gets at least half its consumer products from Johannesburg, and the government-owned airline of leftist Mali serves South African oranges to its passengers...
...could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise of Yugoslavia's new freedoms brought Marshal Tito himself to Slovenia for a long business lunch with Smole under the ironic guise of a "routine medical checkup." Rediscovering politics Western-style, the Slovenes were by and large delighted with themselves. "Isn't it a mess?" asked one official with a smile. "Isn't it a refreshing mess...