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Inside hundreds of homes and offices in Tito's Communist capital of Belgrade last week, there was darkness at noon. The dictator had gone too far too fast in trying to turn his peasant country into a Socialist workers' paradise. Belgrade's superannuated and overloaded power stations first began to falter and fail last January. At that time the city was arbitrarily divided into three zones, each of which was cut off from all power supply for four hours twice a week. Every other day private homes all over the city were kept in the dark...
...Soviet Union's policy has definitely changed, declared Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito last week, and as a result, he said, international tension has eased. "If anyone is competent to recognize a trap, it is we," said Communism's No. 11 heretic, who is, of course, still a Communist. "Because of our experience, we can distinguish between what is a maneuver and what is a positive step," he added. To Tito, the Russian change is more than a maneuver...
...final solution of Trieste seemed to leave both Yugoslavia and Italy feeling better. In Belgrade Marshal Tito spoke glowingly of "consolidation of normalization of relationships between the two countries." There were rumors that Tito would shortly make a state visit to Italy. There was also talk that Tito's favorite Italian, Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida, might now be lend-leased to Yugoslavia to make a film...
Western diplomats think that Tito is too shrewd ever to allow himself to get so close again to the Russian bear that he might be hugged to death...
...Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...