Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save him. While Communist groups shrilly demanded that "political prisoners" be safeguarded against "murderous attacks" in U.S. jails, embarrassed federal men could not even establish that Pavlovich knew who Thompson was when he hit him. Pavlovich was placed in solitary to await U.S. trial, and the ship for Yugoslavia sailed without...
...Communist connections of another kind in his record. Alexander Pavlovich, 32, a Yugoslav seaman, had jumped ship in Portland, Ore. in 1951 in a desperate effort to remain in the U.S. Picked up for deportation by immigration authorities, he had unsuccessfully pleaded that sure death faced him in Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay. As prison officials figured it, Pavlovich had attacked Thompson in an attempt...
...Threatened Yugoslavia with...
...into their hasty pudding of problems, disputes and proposals: Korea, Indo-China, EDC, negotiations with Moscow. Eden was by now addressing Dulles as "Foster," while Dulles called him "Mr. Eden," and both addressed the third man as "Monsieur Bidault." On two urgent worries, they agreed on action: ¶ Invited Yugoslavia and Italy to sit down with them to talk over Trieste. They were somewhat disquieted by Tito's threat to march on Trieste if Italian troops moved in, and by Italian PremierPella's threat to resign if they gave any ground to Tito...
Admittedly worried by the violence of Yugoslavia's reaction and the limb Tito had climbed out on, Western diplomats nonetheless held fast, figuring that, given time. Tito will cool himself and his people down. They do not believe, in other words, that the dictator of Yugoslavia is willing or able to go to war for Trieste...