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When Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito started angling last year for a chance to promote nonalignment and trade in Latin America, half a dozen countries responded with invitations. But Tito played it safe. Well aware that he would be the first unbearded Communist chief of state to visit Latin America, he accepted only where he could hope for an enthusiastic reception: Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico, all of which profess an "independent" line between East and West. Last week the Yugoslav strongman was halfway through his tour, and he had seen little enthusiasm...
Brazil could only be described as a diplomatic disaster. The few feeble cheers were drowned in the roar of protest from Roman Catholic churchmen and conservative organizations. Tito wanted to visit Rio and Sao Paulo; their governors flatly refused, saying they could not guarantee his safety. So for four days Tito hung around the backlands capital of Brasilia while President Joao Goulart wondered miserably what to do next. Tito's address to the joint session of Congress (on the growing importance of nonalignment in world affairs) was boycotted by four-fifths of the legislators...
...Recently, Ben Bella told the New Republic's Jean Daniel: "To me, Castro is a brother, Nasser is a teacher, but Tito is an example...
...Tito and Khrushchev agreed to hold an anti-Chinese Communist summit conference soon, both to consolidate Russia's position in the conflict with China and to state formally that Chinese warmongering is far more harmful to world Communism than Yugoslavia's "revisionism." But Tito and his guest seemed to shy away from much closer relations. Tito ignored Khrushchev's apparent desire to address the Yugoslav parliament, and Russia cold-shouldered Yugoslavia's request for massive economic aid, granted Belgrade only observer status in Comecon, the satellites' more or less common market. "Differences still exist between...
...Cuba. At a joint press conference with Tito, Khrushchev announced that he is not coming to the U.N. General Assembly in New York this month but is going to Cuba instead, also hinted that he might be available for a visit to Egypt. Then he gave the press a sample of his famous earthiness. When a questioner sought to bring out discord between Russia and Yugoslavia by asking him to compare living standards in the two countries (higher in Yugoslavia), Khrushchev got angry. "Why are you trying to sniff a smell from the rectum?" he said. "This...