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...winter in Moscow, but the atmosphere oozed with amiability nevertheless. Khrushchev himself was at flag-draped Kievsky Station to greet Yugoslavia's paunchy Marshal Josip Broz Tito as a "dear comrade" before bundling him and his handsome wife Jovanka off to a Kremlin apartment...
Officially, the two-week visit was billed as a vacation, but it was obvious, from the big delegation of Yugoslav economic and political experts who accompanied the boss that Tito had more in mind than a suntan at Sochi. Among the subjects: more aid, more trade. Forgotten for the time being: the bitter, angry recriminations of the past...
...meeting had its obvious repercussions in Red China. Radio Peking called Tito "a running dog of U.S. imperialism" and the newspaper Kuang Ming described Yugoslavia as a hotbed of crime and adultery, pointing out that 10% of the children born in Belgrade each year are illegitimate...
When his right hip starts to ache, as it does more and more often these days, Yugoslavian Bossman Josef Broz Tito, 70, likes to dunk his bones in a shallow, sun-warmed, saltwater pool built for him at his villa on the Adriatic island of Brijoni. But come winter, Brijoni's climate is just too cold and cloudy, so the dictator has ordered yet another villa, likely to be equipped with his specially designed pool, to be built 170 miles southeast on the island of Hvar, where the hotelkeepers refund the day's rent if the sun doesn...
...from Peking, who two weeks ago in Sofia had witnessed a purge of Red Chinese sympathizers and Stalinists in the Bulgarian Communist Party, would not be shouted down. The revisionists, he shot back, as usual using Tito as a synonym for Khrushchev, were "despicable traitors of the working class...