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...Tito and Castro collide for the "soul" of the Third World...
...Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87, the grand old man of global neutrality, stepped off a Yugoslav air force Boeing 727 at Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, he was stiffly embraced by his host, Cuban President Fidel Castro, 52, the tireless huckster of import-export revolution. It was hardly the sort of comradely bear hug the two leaders have exchanged in the past. This time they were preparing for a fierce showdown over the direction and leadership of what some diplomats called "the very soul" of the Third World...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
Brezhnev has good days and bad days. In April he was barely able to conduct his side of the conversation with visiting French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, while last month he seemed to have bounced back somewhat to receive Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, who is 14 years older than Brezhnev but markedly more vigorous. Two weeks ago, when Brezhnev journeyed to Budapest for a perfunctory meeting with Hungarian Boss Jāanos Kádár, the local press and diplomatic corps were not so much interested in what Brezhnev said as the difficulty with...
President Tito, who had been vacationing at his residence in the Montenegro region at the time of the earthquake, returned to Belgrade yesterday after touring the disaster area...