Word: tito
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...Turn to Tito. What Khrushchev really wants from the Rumanians and the other "fraternal countries" is a mammoth conference in Moscow next fall to demonstrate Communist loyalty to the Soviet Union and denounce Peking. The satellites resist this because they fear, probably with reason, that if Khrushchev can clearly establish his mastery over Peking, he will then try to re-establish his mastery over Eastern Europe. In this dilemma, Moscow last week turned, ironically, to Yugoslavia's Tito, the man who by his defiance of Stalin in 1948 made himself the very symbol of "national Communism." Tito knew that...
...Coolly, Tito sat down with Khrushchev, and then agreed to a communique that spoke of "friendship," "cordiality," even of "monolithic unity" among Communists. He probably promised to seek support for Moscow among the Communist parties in nonaligned lands of Africa and Asia. There was no sign that Tito was ready to help curb the satraps' growing independence from Muscovy, whose rule in Eastern Europe remains of course preponderant but is never likely to be quite the same again...
...doubles as a federal Deputy, shot and wounded a newspaper editor in revenge for an uncomplimentary story about his re-election attempt. Last week another prominent Panamanian was involved in a shooting vendetta-on the receiving end. Lying in a Panama City hospital with severe bullet wounds was Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 45, moneyed husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, nephew of just-defeated presidential candidate Arnulfo Arias, and proud possessor of a long and varied career in his own right...
...After marrying Dame Margot in 1955, Tito twice served (1955-58, 1960-62) as Panama's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Hans Morgenthau argues, this influence has always existed and cannot be prevented short of a head-on war with China, and perhaps not even then. But some believe that a neutralized South Viet Nam would encourage North Vietnamese Premier Ho Chi Minh to become a kind of Tito in the shadow of Red China. In one view, expressed by Asian Expert Bernard Fall, Ho Chi Minh is afraid of U.S. air strikes, which could destroy his struggling economy, and if suitably threatened he would accept a neutral, more or less independent South Viet...