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...moment was superbly stage-managed. Just as the chairman of Yugoslavia's Federal Assembly finished his announcement that Josip Broz Tito had been re-elected as the country's President for the sixth time, a side door was flung open. To a crescendo of applause, Tito himself stepped into the crowded marble-walled chamber. Deeply tanned, smiling broadly and dressed impeccably in a white tropical suit, he looked remarkably...
...election to a five-year term was a mere formality. Tito was appearing before the Assembly on a far more urgent and historic mission: to put into effect 20 amendments to the constitution that are aimed at a fundamental overhaul of Yugoslavia's political and economic life. He knows his time is short, and he fears that his system of participatory and highly innovative Communism may not survive him. Thus he is seeking to revamp the governmental framework so that the country's future will depend not so much on individuals as on stable institutions designed to prevent...
...23rd Man. Tito's new departures could have as profound an effect on the course of world Communism as his 1948 break with the Soviet-dominated Cominform and the subsequent economic innovations that have made the Yugoslav model the inspiration of East European reformers. The new measures included two main steps...
...office last week as the highest executive agency in the country. Three members are chosen from each of Yugoslavia's six republics and two from each of the two autonomous provinces. The 23rd man, and the one who will run things as long as he is around, is Tito, who was named Chairman of the presidency. After he is gone, the chairmanship will rotate among the republics. In the event the Federal Assembly fails to agree on legislation, the collective presidency will have the power to rule by decree...
...When Tito first proposed his constitutional changes in September 1970, bitter debate erupted among the republics, and old hatreds were fanned to white heat. Unwisely, Croatia's Communist leaders allowed nationalist fervor to build up, in hopes of exerting greater pressure on Belgrade for economic concessions. The agitation quickly got out of control. LONG LIVE FREE CROATIA signs began to appear in the republic. Autos that belonged to Serbs, 800,000 of whom live in Croatia, were tipped over. In an ironic turnabout, the big Croatian exile organization in West Germany, which historically had been strongly anti-Communist...