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Since June, Josip Broz Tito's third wife, Jovanka, has been missing from the aging (85) President's side. Ill health? Marital problems? Last week party officials were whispering to Western journalists in Belgrade that Jovanka was, in fact, in big political trouble. Unbeknownst to Tito, Jovanka had allegedly overstepped her position by lobbying for the promotion of Serbian officers who were close friends from her home district of Lika. That kind of politicking is unsettling in Yugoslavia, where traditional friction between Serbs and Croats may pose a danger to national unity when Tito dies...
Jovanka was reported to be under house arrest in the presidential residence. Party officials said Tito had approved the investigation of her lobbying, and, obviously, he would decide on her punishment. That might be mild or firm. As one Yugoslav editor commented last week, "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach. At least that's how Caesar feels...
...immediate target of Soviet wrath is Spanish Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo. In tones reminiscent of Moscow's strident broadsides against Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito in the late 1940s and '50s, and China's Mao Tse-tung since the '60s, the Soviet weekly New Times blasted Carrillo, his new book Eurocommunism and the State, and the whole notion that Marxist societies can be established in Western Europe that would be independent of the Soviet Union...
...Times diatribe was clearly a signal both to other Communist parties in Western Europe and to Moscow's captive regimes in the East. Spanish party leaders who have traveled in Eastern Europe lately have met chilly and even hostile official receptions just about everywhere they have gone outside Tito's Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania. Says one such traveler: "I got the feeling that the governments didn't know how to react and were waiting for a sign from Moscow...
...Mondale flew on to Belgrade to pay a call on Yugoslav Communist Leader Josip Broz Tito, Washington's U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was preparing to go from the Mozambican capital of Maputo to South Africa. In Mozambique, where he attended a 92-nation U.N. conference on Rhodesia and Namibia, Young had held private talks with Mozambican President Samora Machel and other African leaders. He irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow...