Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keystone of President Johnson's foreign policy is "building bridges" to Communist Eastern Europe, especially to Yugoslavia, whose independence from Moscow the U.S. has long encouraged. Yugoslavia is the third largest recipient of American surplus food (after India and Pakistan), has taken almost $1 billion worth. Lately it has been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland...
Dead Deal. The hassle has upset the Johnson Administration, which feels that its foreign policy aims are being undermined, and it has caused a furor in Yugoslavia. As President Tito said recently: "It comes at a time of implementation of our economic reform and causes difficulties. It doesn't improve relations." Nor were relations-or Tito's case-helped last month by three angry anti-U.S. demonstrations in Yugoslavia...
Actually, while the wheat deal is dead, Yugoslavia may still get a final shipment of $9.6 million worth of vegetable oil because the transaction was completed last April, well before Findley's amendment was approved by Congress. Nonetheless, Administration bridge building will be more seriously crimped in future by yet another amendment attached to the bill extending the Food-for-Peace program. It prohibits the shipment of bargain U.S. food to any nation that sells strategic materials to Cuba. Yugoslavia sends Castro goods ranging from truck tires to machinery. And, in fact, the U.S. is no longer...
...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 once again...
...caretaker government until a new one could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise of Yugoslavia's new freedoms brought Marshal Tito himself to Slovenia for a long business lunch with Smole under the ironic guise of a "routine medical checkup." Rediscovering politics Western-style, the Slovenes were by and large delighted with themselves. "Isn't it a mess?" asked one official with a smile...