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...Yugoslavs have talked only in whispers about the dreaded UDBA (for Uprava Drzavne Bezbednosti), or State Security Directorate, a faceless army of 20,000 or so state snoopers who modeled themselves after the Soviet secret police. But after finding a listening device in his own bedroom, Marshal Tito two months ago called for sweeping reforms and fired the security chief, Vice President Aleksandar Rankovic, 56. As a result, UDBA has become fair game for exposes...
...after all, and it offered the first English translation of the pseudonymous Soviet critic Abram Tertz. Last week with its September issue, the magazine was again on top of a literary cause célèbre. It printed the first English translation of the open letter written to Tito in July by Mihajlo Mihajlov. The letter politely explained why the Yugoslav writer felt that he must persist in his intention to found an "opposition newspaper." Four weeks after writing it, he was arrested (TIME...
President Tito in a mellow mood once claimed that anybody seeking a fuller measure of democracy from him was "pushing on an open door." Then along came a young unemployed university teacher to try the door, daring to challenge Tito publicly. It slammed behind him, and last week Mihajlo Mihajlov, 32, was in jail in Zadar, an Adriatic seaside resort...
When the cops hauled Mihajlov away last week, his friends said that they would carry on without him. Their defiance would have earned a bullet 20 years ago in Tito's dictatorial heyday. Tito has mellowed since then, but he still must draw the line somewhere. His plight is that of all post-Stalin Communists: how to satisfy a people's craving for liberty and not be swept away by the rush toward freedom...
...stop last week was Cairo, where she spent two days reviewing the world's horizons with Jawaharlal's old neutralist crony Gamal Abdel Nasser. Next she will fly to the Adriatic isle of Brioni and two days of talks with another old non-aligned family friend, Marshal Tito. This week a special Aeroflot airliner will whisk her from Brioni to Moscow...