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...soon as Brezhnev stepped from his gleaming Ilyushin Il-62 jetliner at Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through...
BREZHNEV IN BELGRADE: With Brandt back home, Brezhnev is scheduled to call on Yugoslavia's President Josip Tito in Belgrade this week. The talks will provide an important clue to Soviet intentions toward the independent-minded Yugoslavs. Will Brezhnev, in the interests of European detente, accept Yugoslavia's unorthodox experiments in political and economic decentralization? How will he deal with Yugoslavia's flirtation with China...
...early last spring, the Kremlin evidently believed that Yugoslavia might be ripped asunder over its regional problems. So too did many Western observers. Tito summoned the country's leaders to his retreat at Brioni Island in the Adriatic and ordered them to stop playing on old hatreds. He stumped the country, at one point told a crowd: "The papers write that as long as Tito is there, he will somehow manage to hold it together, but if he should go, everything will fall apart. What a sorry affair if all this depends on only one man!" Thanks largely...
Invisible Assets. To a large degree, the success of Tito's latest experiment depends on Yugoslavia's continuing prosperity. After enjoying a miniboom for nearly a decade, the economy, which manages to combine capitalistic profit incentives within a Communist frame- work, has run into a severe inflationary problem. Despite a partial price and wage freeze last December, the cost of living is now rising at an annual rate of about 14%. A 20% devaluation of the dinar early this year failed to quench the thirst for foreign goods or boost Yugoslav exports. As a consequence, Yugoslavia...
Even if the economy does retain its rosy glow, however, a more serious prob-lem remains. Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former right-hand man to Tito, urged a diminution of centralized rule and greater personal freedoms as long ago as the 1950s. For his pains, Djilas spent nine years in Tito's prisons. Now he is worried that a 23-man presidency might go too far toward de-centralization and do more harm than good. "A 'collective presidency' instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency...