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...some ways, the post-Tito era has already begun

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...vigil was one of the few perceptible signs of anxiety last week as Yugoslavs prepared for the inevitable. "I hope Tito will recover," said a high-ranking government official, "but we are aware that every man has to die." Television announcers were instructed to acquire appropriately dark suits. For three days, radio stations played only somber music, but then relaxed somewhat. Newspapers published the best-known utterances from Tito's 35-year rule, almost as though they were already posthumous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...some ways, the post-Tito era appeared to have already begun. The complex machinery of succession, based on a collective rather than one-man leadership, had automatically gone into effect following Tito's hospitalization. At the head of the nine-member committee-like State Presidency was current Vice President Lazar Koliševski, 66, a mild-mannered Macedonian who would become the country's first interim President upon Tito's death. He would serve until May, when another committee member would take over. Tito's functions as party chief were carried out by the current chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...ideals" only by destroying the core and foundation of a nation's life. He who understands this will not for a minute believe that Chinese Communism is more peace-loving than the Soviet variety (it is simply that its teeth have not yet grown), or that Marshal Tito's brand is kindly by nature. The latter was also leavened with blood, and it too consolidated its power by mass killings, but the weak-hearted West preferred not to take any notice in 1943-45. He who understands the nature of Communism will not ask whether the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn on Communism | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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