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...London stressed that voters in Western Europe tend to cross lines in regional contests as a means of registering protests, much as American voters do in primaries. Europeans were more sanguine than the U.S. about the respectability and acceptability of Italian Communists. Some British politicians even suggested that a Tito-style Communist Party in Italy would be more of an embarrassment than an asset to the Kremlin...
Propaganda bombast aside, Ho Chi Minh, dead or alive, provided the crucial element in North Viet Nam's astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
...concerts and other opera dates. Her income from these appearances and recordings is about $400,000 a year. That makes her one of the two or three highest-paid sopranos in classical music - only one indication of the way she has come to dominate her field. Says Tito Capobianco, the artistic director-elect of the San Diego Opera: "She is Beverly Sills with or without...
...article last fall, why was Mihajlov not indicted when they first appeared? Answering his own question, Djilas notes that three years ago, the. historian's statements did not seem so threatening to the regime as they do now that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus he has recently ordered an ideological campaign to suppress political unorthodoxy and augment the power of the central party leadership. According to Djilas, Mihajlov...
Jailing Mihajlov might also be a sop to the Soviets, whose attitude toward Yugoslavia will be extremely important in the post-Tito era (TIME, Oct. 21). For a decade, Mihajlov has been the Kremlin's least favorite Yugoslav. His 1965 travelogue, Moscow Summer, was scathingly critical of the Soviet police state. Kremlin leaders were so angered by it that they pressured Belgrade to prosecute Mihajlov for "defaming a friendly power." Since then he has been tried three times and has served 3½ years in prison. This did not dissuade him, however, from warning in his recent articles that...