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Jamaica without Sir Alexander Bustamante? It is like Ethiopia without Haile Selassie, Yugoslavia without Tito. A white-maned half-caste who seemed a kind of quixotic king to the island's poor back-country blacks, Bustamante organized the widespread riots that won the Caribbean country a large measure of self-rule in the 1940s, led Jamaica to complete independence from Britain five years ago, and since then has served as the country's Prime Minister. Last week Sir Alexander, ailing and half-blind at 83, resigned as head of government and called new national elections...
...missing as the Yugoslav Central Committee met last week in Belgrade's ornate, 19th century Parliament Hall. For the first time since World War II, President Josip Broz Tito was not present to call the tune. He was relaxing at his island hideaway of Brioni, fully content to let his lieutenants transact what business there was. Tito's absence-and his confidence-were symbolic of the country's new relaxation. Yugoslav Communism is evolving toward a less dictatorial-if still far from democratic-form of government...
Last year Yugoslavia underwent a series of events unprecedented under a Communist regime. Tito signed a protocol with the Vatican, purged-and then reprieved-his leading reactionary lieutenant, Aleksandar ("Marko") Ran-kovic, and released from 41 years in prison his archcritic, liberal Author Milovan Djilas. In the first such defiance in a Communist state, Slovenian party members bucked their boss, State President Janko Smole, over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important...
Refulgent Resorts. Tito has begun 1967 just as spectacularly. On Jan. 1, Yugoslavia opened its borders to all foreigners, becoming the first Communist country to abolish visas. At the same time, the 300,000 Yugoslavs (out of 20 million) who are employed outside the country, mostly in Western Europe, have no difficulty returning or departing. One good reason: they send home $70 million a year. To be sure, Tito still holds Author Mihajlo Mihajlov (Moscow Summer) in prison for attempting to establish an "opposition" political magazine, but many Western publications are now available in Yugoslavia. Much of Yugoslavia...
Died. Boris Krajger, 52, Vice Premier of Yugoslavia and architect of the 1965 economic reforms (currency devaluation, reduced price controls) designed to foster competition on the world market, a Communist since student days who escaped from an Italian concentration camp to join Tito's partisans in 1943 and marched with them to power; when his car skidded into a tree; in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia...