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...World War II, Carmelo Jurissevich was a tough-minded and tough-sinewed partisan who fought with Tito against the Germans. But being a Croatian peasant who treasured freedom and hated authority, he had no use for Tito's postwar Communist dictatorship. On the inevitable night in 1949 when Tito's secret police came after him, Carmelo and his younger brother Emil fled to Trieste, only a thump ahead of the knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year...
...either side of the border ever betrayed him. But last week Carmelo's luck ran out. In the Carso hills above Trieste, where he knew every twisted pathway, sheltered wood and hidden gully, Carmelo was leading a couple and their two children to safety when Tito's red-starred "people's guards" opened fire with submachine guns. Carmelo returned the fire with his Beretta pistol, but the next day Yugoslav authorities proudly announced the killing of "the notorious bandit, Jurissevich." Mourning a legend and a hero, a Triestino said: "He really cared about only one thing, personal...
...Minh, the goateed scholar and activist who is President of Communist North Viet Nam, last week smooched in comradely fashion with Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
...first hint of big things to come was the announcement from Belgrade that Russia would at last make good on its broken promise of $250 million in aid to Tito's Yugoslavia. Four days later came Radio Moscow's announcement: Soviet Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Tito had met "somewhere in Rumania," Khrushchev had brought along a tidy delegation, including agile First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, a trade expert, and 76-year-old Otto Kuusinen, former Secretary of the Comintern. But Khrushchev's old partner, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, did not come along, and he will...
...days later, a vague communiqué spoke of agreement on "concrete forms of cooperation." But Tito, who insists that each Red state should work out its own brand of Communism, managed to head off any references in the communiqué to "the Socialist camp" and "proletarian internationalism," two phrases dearly loved by Moscow to indicate domination of all Communism. The communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There...