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...dozen Serbian towns last week as the stafeta, a ceremonial baton, passed through on its annual tour. Carried by relay runners throughout the country's six republics, the stafeta traditionally ends up in Belgrade on May 25 for the official birthday celebration of President Josip Broz Tito. This year the hollow, gold-plated baton contains a special message: "Our desire that you get well is expressed on the lips and resounds in the hearts of all Yugoslavs...
...Tito may never hear that message. For the past two months, he has been wavering between life and death at the Ljubljana Clinical Center in Slovenia, where he underwent amputation of his left leg on Jan. 20. Now semicomatose, he is stricken with a formidable array of ailments: kidney failure, heart trouble, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Yugoslav officials have given Tito up for dead on at least two occasions. Yet the tough old Resistance fighter has continued to defy long medical odds. His tenacity has far surpassed even that of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco...
...Tito's own physical stamina is doubtless the main reason for his survival, but another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate...
...part, President Carter declared that the U.S. would be willing to help guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality, along with other nations including the Soviet Union, if the troop withdrawal came first. The gesture came in a cable to President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia; despite his grave illness, Tito had written both Carter and Brezhnev and implored them to preserve detente. The prevailing view in the Carter Administration, however, was that the Kremlin's campaign was a "propaganda exercise" aimed at dividing Western ranks and blunting Washington's anti-Soviet retaliation. Other countries, meanwhile, were getting into...
...leadership was obviously intent on giving the lie to fearful Western prophecies that after Tito-by force or subterfuge-Yugoslavia might be yanked back into the Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...