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...evident fear and frustration, the Soviets have stepped up their attacks on the booming, capitalist Common Market. Last week the Kremlin signed up a new member in its Hate-the-Six campaign: Communist Yugoslavia. Winding up a ten-day visit to Belgrade, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Yugoslav President Tito signed a joint declaration that, among other things, condemned the Common Market as a Western scheme to exploit outsiders by raising discriminatory "artificial barriers" against them...
When Columnist Drew Pearson interviewed Marshal Tito recently at the island retreat of Brijoni, he was surprised to discover that the dictator's aides were more interested in getting details about the death of Marilyn Monroe than in discussing nuclear testing or Berlin. Last week Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Belgrade for a ten-day state visit, and the Yugoslavs again allowed themselves to be distracted from world affairs by a lovely female figure...
Moving Closer. Still, there was more to Brezhnev's visit than a glamour competition. Ever since Tito's break with the Cominform in 1948, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have been the touchstone for Moscow's relations with the world's other Communist parties. While Stalin lived, satellite leaders were ruthlessly purged if they were suspected of sympathizing with Tito's nationalistic ideas. Under Khrushchev's more flexible policy, which allows other Communist rulers greater domestic independence but still preserves the political supremacy of the Soviet Union. Tito has been steadily wooed closer to the Kremlin...
Harsh Words. By the laws of Communist meteorology, when Soviet-Yugoslav relations get warmer, Soviet-Chinese relations automatically grow more turbulent. Last week the Red Chinese and their distant Albanian allies renewed their blistering criticism of Tito and that "modern revisionist," Khrushchev. Peking was especially angry over Tito's interview with Columnist Pearson, in which Tito called the Chinese warmongers. Rising to Peking's defense, the Albanians lashed out at Khrushchev for agreeing to sell MIG jet fighters to India, for possible use against "innocent" Chinese...
Brezhnev and Tito ignored the outbursts. Looking remarkably robust for his age (70) and his long career in the Communist jungle, Tito made plans to repay the courtesy call with his own trip to Moscow within six months. Probable companion on the return visit: Tito's wife, a stunning, black-haired ex-officer in the partisan army, whose silk gowns and jewels wowed Moscow during a previous visit as impressively as Galina's style distracted Belgrade last week...