Word: titos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the scandal has shaken public confidence in its banks, some of Yugoslavia's 23 million citizens have found reason to cheer. They say that the country's cumbersome rotating leadership, which has ruled since the death of Dictator Josip Broz Tito in 1980, may now have the opportunity to push through needed reforms. On the reformers' list are such measures as liquidation of money-losing state companies, closer supervision of regional banks by central authorities, and curbs on the ability of regional governments to veto national legislation. Moreover, the Yugoslav press played an unusually aggressive role in uncovering...
...rarely permitted to travel abroad. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Belgrade government issued a passport to its most vociferous critic, Milovan Djilas, 75. The internationally renowned author, a founder of Yugoslavia's Communist system and a top aide of the late Josip Broz Tito's, had been denied a passport for nearly 17 years...
...reasons date back to 1953, when Djilas, then Tito's heir apparent, began criticizing the regime he had helped establish. Djilas' denunciations were eventually published abroad in his articles and books, including The New Class. Djilas was jailed several times, spending a total of nine years behind bars. He was finally set free in 1966, but since then has continued to criticize the Yugoslav government. As recently as 1984 he was detained by police...
...film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde. A lip-sync contest, to the Talking Heads' bar-brawl rave-up Wild Wild Life, is awhirl with amateur energy. For 15 seconds or so each, a dozen locals -- Louis the Country Bachelor (John Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also a little girl, a fat woman, a Prince look-alike and his votary (played by Fellow Heads Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth) -- get to put on the hit, and each does so with reckless style. Other songs show...
...P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, was mainly the occasion for spirited America bashing...