Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment for which all Yugoslavs, as well as many foreign political leaders, had been preparing for weeks. On Sunday, Belgrade's official news agency, Tanjug, announced the death of Josip Broz Tito, 87, Yugoslavia's President-for-Life and Supreme Chairman of the Yugoslav League of Communists. In accordance with a succession plan that Tito had arranged and approved, his titles devolved automatically on two little-known party functionaries who had been carrying out his duties since January: Party Chairman Stevan Doronjski and President Lazar Kolisevski...
...Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died yesterday after developing new heart trouble. He was 87 years...
...both Afghanistan and Iran. For another, Paris will be the site this week for a kind of pro-Soviet gala: a conference of European Communist parties designed to rally around Moscow's denunciation of NATO'S proposed new generation of nuclear missiles. Four major parties-the Yugoslav, Rumanian, Italian and Spanish -pointedly refused to attend, but Moscow appeared not to care. Its main purpose, according to French Pundit Pierre Hassner: "To force the parties to choose sides, to stand up and be counted...
...months, he has been wavering between life and death at the Ljubljana Clinical Center in Slovenia, where he underwent amputation of his left leg on Jan. 20. Now semicomatose, he is stricken with a formidable array of ailments: kidney failure, heart trouble, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Yugoslav officials have given Tito up for dead on at least two occasions. Yet the tough old Resistance fighter has continued to defy long medical odds. His tenacity has far surpassed even that of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco in 1975; stricken by three successive heart attacks at 82, Franco...
...would become the country's first interim President upon Tito's death. He would serve until May, when another committee member would take over. Tito's functions as party chief were carried out by the current chairman of the 24-member Presidium of the ruling Yugoslav League of Communists, Stevan Doronjski, 60, a colorless Tito loyalist from Vojvodina province. Both Koliševski and Doronjski had traveled to Ljubljana two weeks ago to visit with Tito at his bedside; it was announced that they attended a special meeting of the State Presidency to discuss what were described...