Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force of his personal prestige. Still, awareness of Tito's mortality was heightened in Belgrade by Francisco Franco's death in November at 82. The similarity in the two leaders' age and personal power and the delicate internal political situation in both Spain and Yugoslavia have aroused fresh speculation about the country's future after Tito...
...Orbit. The real danger to Yugoslavia's future sovereignty, in Tito's view, looms not from within but from without. Belgrade shares with Washing ton and other Western governments a fear that the Kremlin will move to regain influence over Yugoslavia, which spun dramatically out of the Soviet or bit in 1948 when Tito rebelled against Stalin's dictates. This might well involve subversion of the post-Tito government by Russia's agents and even a Soviet army invasion of Yugoslavia...
...their contingency planning and strategy is directed at meeting that threat. As for the Yugoslav Communists, their power depends on maintaining a great distance from the orthodoxy prescribed by the Soviet Party." Western specialists believe that Soviet agents are already involved in what is euphemistically called "destabilization operations" in Yugoslavia. That may explain why 32 so-called Cominformists* were arrested in Yugoslavia in 1974 for having circulated anti-Tito leaflets, holding pro-Soviet Communist meetings and even an illicit Party congress. Thirty-six more were tried...
Less Dependent. These arrests were accompanied by a massive and tightly coordinated campaign of anti-Soviet publicity and official speeches aimed at the Kremlin. The unmistakable message: there are limits to Yugoslavia's tolerance of Soviet interference. At a recent meeting of the Presidium, Party Chief Stane Dolanc denounced "Cominformists" as "traitors to our country." Another Party leader spoke balefully of "black clouds of Stalinism hovering over the horizon." The Yugoslav press has published a host of articles apparently designed to educate younger Party members about the nature of the 1948 dispute with Moscow. The past six issues...
...woman who inspires such tribute was born to Albanian parents in Skoplje, Yugoslavia, in 1910, and baptized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Even at the age of twelve, she remembers, she wanted to be a missionary, "to go out and give the love of Christ." The desire grew when some local Jesuits, freshly sent to India, wrote enthusiastic letters home about their work in the Bengal missions. By the time she was 18, Agnes had joined the Irish branch of Loreto nuns who were working in Calcutta. In 1937 she made her final vows...