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Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died yesterday after developing new heart trouble. He was 87 years...
...Tito died soon after his team of eight doctors issued a medical bulletin saying he had slipped into critical condition. He had been hospitalized for nearly four months following a blood vessel blockage that led to amputation of his left...
...Tito's condition had temporarily stabilized last Wednesday, a week after he went into a coma and shock following a four-month battle with liver damage, kidney failure, high fever and pneumonia...
Another apparent last-ditch expedient in Tito's remarkable survival has been the use of an experimental U.S. drug called Moxalactam, produced by Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis. The penicillin-related drug has not yet been licensed for sale in the U.S. But when Tito's doctors requested an emergency shipment late last month, permission was almost immediately granted by both the State Department and the Food and Drug Administration. Initial results were encouraging. Nevertheless, high fever has persisted and medical experts doubt that the new drug can maintain his life...
...feat of keeping Tito alive has also produced a salutary political effect: it has given Yugoslavia time to prepare for his passing. Since January, the collective leadership that Tito put in place has been functioning smoothly and appears to be proving itself capable of running the country without him. Among ordinary Yugoslavs today, concern persists, but the tension of the first days of Tito's final illness has given way to stoical acceptance. Said Jože Smole, Tito's former personal secretary and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists: "We have very deep...