Word: yugo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homebred critics, Yugo slavia's Marshal Tito has known few with the prickly persistence of Milovan Djilas, his onetime Vice President, close friend and confidant. Djilas has been sniping at Communist repression since the early 1950s, and for his efforts he has spent 81 of the last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free...
...freely to Western nations; President Tito himself has severely handcuffed the once-dread ed secret-police apparatus; and the re gime is openly encouraging a measure of economic and local political compe tition. But there are still some limits to liberalization, as Writer Mihajlo Mihajlov discovered last week. A Yugo slav court sentenced Mihajlov to ten months in jail for writing uncompli mentary things about the way Tito runs his country...
...nomics. "Yugoslav society is ready for democracy and does not want anyone, in any central committee, in any single party, to decide what people may or may not know about the world, about life and political events," he wrote last July. It is a measure of how far Yugo slavia has moved that Mihajlov's sen tence was so much less severe than the letter of the law against "spreading false information about Yugoslavia" would have allowed - and that the writ er is still free, pending the outcome of an appeal. In an earlier period, Mihajlov might never have...
Hints of trouble had been rumbling through Belgrade for months. Last January the Serbian Central Committee darkly warned of "chauvinistic, nationalistic, localist interferences" with Yugo slavian economic reforms. In February, President Tito himself struck out against unnamed party members who were "sabotaging" the nation's future. Who were the villains obstructing the dramatic social and economic changes that have swept Yugoslavia over the past decade? Last week they were revealed...
Vladimir Dedijer, leader of the Yugo-slav partisan movement, said last night that in a successful revolutionary movement, there mist be a balance between the "role of ideology and the role of social unrest...