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...tide has not flowed entirely in Moscow's direction. In 1948, after Tito persisted in pursuing an independent policy, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Corn-inform, the international alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although...
Concern over Yugoslavia's continued independence after Tito's death appears to have broken a long stalemate in Belgrade's negotiations with the European Community for lowered tariffs and increased quotas on its exports to Western Europe. European Commission President Roy Jenkins told President Carter and his top aides in Washington last week that the Community was ready to make major concessions to Yugoslavia and to speed up the negotiations. Meanwhile, TIME has learned, Tito made a poignant, personal appeal to Carter for some kind of assurance that the U.S. would not abandon Yugoslavia to Soviet imperialism...
...Tito first entered the Ljubljana Clinic on Jan. 3 for examination of circulatory problems. Nine days later he underwent an unsuccessful operation to remove or bypass a blood clot in his left leg. A form of "dry gangrene"-the localized death of tissue caused by a lack of circulation-developed in the leg, and thus the doctors (with Tito's reluctant concurrence) decided that amputation was necessary...
...initial fears that it generated both in Yugoslavia and in foreign capitals, the crisis may have had some salutary effects. For one thing, the Belgrade government had a brief taste of what it will be like to be on its own, without Tito's firm hand at the helm. The collective leadership that Tito had set up in 1974 in the event of his death began functioning automatically. As a precautionary measure against the possibility of an invasion by Soviet and East bloc forces, the country's 259,000-member armed forces and 500,000 reserves were placed...
...leader privy to White House thinking said: "We feel that we have a stake in Yugoslavia's continued position of relative independence, as a buffer between the dominated satellites and the West. We are at some pains to ensure that the Russians not seize on the illness of Tito in he mistaken belief that Yugoslavia is not completely stable...