Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person cast is exemplary. Tesich spent the first 14 years of his life in Titovo Uzice, Yugoslavia, and something certainly stirred his Slavic blood when he wrote this sometimes erratic, sometimes ironic, but always moving musical...
...include three veterans of the Spanish Civil War-President Jose Maldonado, 74, Premier Fernando Valera, 79, and Deputy Premier Julio Just, 81-plus four younger refugees from more recent political purges in Franco's Spain. In addition to the Boulogne headquarters, there are embassies in Mexico and Yugoslavia, the only two countries that recognize the Republicans as the legitimate government of Spain. The government publishes monthly newspapers in Paris, Mexico City, New York and Buenos Aires, and it issues passports, which are useful only if the bearer limits his travel to Mexico and Yugoslavia. The government also bestows medals...
...York. In Moscow, for example, sanitation men who work the hardest are paid the most. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, solicited competitive bids for a project from city planners in a neighboring municipality as well as its own planners...
...chair in a neat office at a new building in Brandeis called the "International Building," done in the I.M. Pei style and festooned with flags of different countries. Quietly, without wanting to make too much of it: "I am very strongly drawn toward decentralized, nontyrannical political systems like Yugoslavia"--although he later qualifies this, worrying about the resurgence of Stalinism and some lack of democratic institutions in Titoism...
Historians of the future will probably see this counterattack as one of the major events of the 20th century. In 1961 the first conference of nonaligned nations was held in Belgrade under the sponsorship of Yugoslavia's Tito, Egypt's Nasser and India's Nehru. The 1970s saw a rapid growth in their power and sense of purpose as well as in their tendency to blame the industrialized West for many of the world's problems. The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was marred by Third World claims that...