Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week amidst rumors that his visit to Rumania had prompted a Soviet protest to Bucharest, which for all its friendliness to Peking still has important military, economic and political ties to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, with maliciously anti-Soviet timing, Hua touched down at the airport outside the Yugoslav capital on the tenth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Lest anyone fail to get his point, he made it clear that night. At a state dinner given by Yugoslavia's venerable Field Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 86, Hua alluded to fears that Moscow might try to intervene after...
...opening date had been chosen with care: exactly 30 years after fiercely independent Yugoslavia was expelled from Joseph Stalin's Cominform for what became known as "Titoism." Many things have changed since then, but not the enduring presence of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito himself. Last week, as 2,300 delegates from the Balkan federation's League of Communists and observers from 63 foreign Communist parties (including the Soviet Union's) met in Belgrade for the country's eleventh national party congress, the official four-day agenda seemed of secondary importance. Overshadowing everything was the figure...
...moment, Tito continues to rule as well as reign in Yugoslavia. He sees top party and government aides regularly. Matters involving foreign policy and the Yugoslav army are his personal domain. Says one Western diplomat in Belgrade: "He doesn't have to refer anything back to anyone for approval." Adds onetime Tito colleague Milovan Djilas: "His attitude is that of a good father...
Tito spends as little time as possible in the capital. His favorite summer retreat is the Adriatic island of Brioni, while his winters are spent at a cliffside villa in Igalo, on the southern tip of Yugoslavia. He still indulges his passion for hunting: last year the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug solemnly reported that he had shot the largest ibex ever killed in the Slovene mountains. He is also an inveterate movie watcher, favoring westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently...
Under a 1975 West German-Yugoslav extradition treaty, 81 people have been exchanged. Political prisoners, however, fall into a shady area. Except for crimes against human life, such as murder, acts considered to be politically motivated are not extraditable offenses. That leaves Bonn in a quandary. Turning over political prisoners would be improper. But not turning over prisoners that Belgrade wants could delay or possibly prevent the return of the R. A.F. four...