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Yugoslavia's economic split personality began emerging in 1950, when Marshal Josip Broz Tito rejected Soviet-style central planning in favor of economic decentralization. Under his "self-management" system, workers' councils set wage rates and product prices in each enterprise, and theoretically have the power to fire managers, who are responsible to the councils rather than to a state ministry. Kiro Gligorov, a leader of Yugoslavia's League of Communists and the nation's chief economist, explained to TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "We believe that the state cannot replace private owners in the management of enterprises...
...Instead of taking a vacation, someone could give his money to an enterprise, which in turn could give him interest and maybe even something else as well," Kavcic says. His proposal has horrified some Communist purists. Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslavia's chief ideologist and a close associate of Tito's, argues that stock ownership is anti-Marxist because it inevitably involves the "exploitation of other people's work." But the need for more capital may eventually overcome such inhibitions...
...FUTURE. "I have only two choices: to be a puppet of the U.S.A. or to have a Communist Cambodia-Communist but independent. There are independent Communist states. Inside they are Communist, but outside they are independent. Perhaps [North Vietnamese Premier] Pham Van Dong will make a good partner, as Tito does, for America...
...wake of the student strike in Zagreb last November, which led to Tito's subsequent crackdown in Croatia, Yugoslav officials claim that the eleven accused ringleaders of the alleged conspiracy were plotting a full-scale general strike as a prelude to an uprising in support of Croatian independence. Meanwhile, some 400 Communist officials, including Tripalo and Dabčevič-Kučar, have been purged from their posts, and more firings may follow. The trials of the conspirators will probably begin in March...
...their speeches, Tito and the other leaders were careful to stress that they had no intention of returning to the harsh old police-state technique that prevailed in Yugoslavia before the ouster of former Secret Police Chief Aleksandar Rankovic in 1966. "We have experienced state socialism [the Yugoslav euphemism for Stalinism]" said Montenegrin Party Leader Veselin Djuranović, "and we never want to experience it again." Even so, tighter party rule will almost inevitably mean greater political controls, and perhaps even an increased role for the secret police, as has already happened in Croatia. In their efforts to combat nationalism...