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DIED. Vladimir Bakarit, 70, vice president of Yugoslavia and the last of Josip Broz Tito's comrades-in-arms still in power; after a long illness; in Zagreb. A Croatian lawyer and a Communist Party member since 1933, he joined Tito's partisan army during World War II and served as its political commissar, later rising to membership in the party's ruling Politburo. Under the rotating system of collegial presidency in use since Tito's death, Bakaric was due to become chief of state this spring...
...activity limited to America. Since 1975, Levine has appeared regularly at the prestigious Salzburg Festival in Austria, leading widely acclaimed productions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito in the composer's home town. When Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of Richard, was seeking a conductor for last summer's centennial production of Parsifal at Bayreuth, Levine was his choice. "Jimmy's star is going up," says a member of the Chicago Symphony. "I don't think anything will interrupt the rise." Levine talks about his ascent to prominence with a characteristic mixture...
...Moscow that is comfortable but not elegant. When Sakharov was invited to visit by Andropov's son in the mid-1960s, the apartment's outstanding features were a stereo system, a sofa and a cabinet of highly polished wood, gifts to Andropov from the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito...
...list of 32 cities, towns, streets and landmarks that would receive new names. In addition, a special Cabinet committee has recommended up to 700 more name changes. According to these proposals, the capital's Rhodes Avenue, named for Rhodesia's founder, Cecil Rhodes, will become Marshal Tito Avenue. Victoria Street, named for Queen Victoria, will be Karl Marx Street. Stanley Avenue, honoring British Explorer Henry Morton Stanley, will be Vladimir Lenin Avenue...
...colleagues and I were driven to Zavidovo, the Politburo hunting preserve-the Soviet Camp David-some 90 miles northeast of Moscow. This was intended as a great honor. No Western leader had ever been invited to Zavidovo; the only other foreigners to visit it, I was told, had been Tito and President Urho Kekkonen of Finland. Our hosts did their best to convey that good relations with the U.S. meant a great deal to them...