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...Yugoslavia last week. The victim was Mihajlo Mihajlov, 30, professor of literature at the university at Zadar on the Adriatic Sea, who, after a visit to Russia, wrote a frankly anti-Soviet piece for the Yugoslav monthly Delo (TIME, Feb. 19). Grabbed by police under pressure from President Tito himself, Mihajlov was charged with "deriding" a foreign government-a criminal charge in Yugoslavia...
...trial, Mihajlov proved a difficult man to cow. Appearing in a courtroom whose only ornament was a large portrait of Tito, he pleaded not guilty before a three-judge tribunal. He even scored a pre-trial victory when the Croatian Supreme Court sustained his petition to have one of the judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...
...custody. It was a much milder penalty than that meted out to Milovan Djilas (The New Class), who is still serving a nine-year term for criticizing Yugoslav Communism. To cynics, that was just the point: a Yugoslav gets only months for criticizing Stalin but gets years for criticizing Tito...
...Perhaps harking back to the last months of World War II, when Zadar was used as a base by British and U.S. ships landing supplies for Tito's Partisans. Since the war, U.S. naval vessels have only occasionally made Zadar a port of call...
...YUGOSLAVIA. Avid for dollars, Tito's government forgives Americans guilty of traffic offenses that would land Yugoslavs in serious trouble. If an American goes to jail, it is usually only long enough for the cops to find a translator to call U.S. officials. To avoid accidents, however, avoid night driving. Roads are full of unlighted oxcarts and parked trucks with snoozing drivers. If he bumbles into forbidden areas at night, a tourist may find his car and himself ventilated by trigger-happy guards. Equally dangerous: trading black-market dollars or defacing Tito's ubiquitous pictures...