Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Markovic, a professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia until 1968, was removed from his position by the government following student protests in which some of his students took part...
...articles I always wanted to help Yugoslavia. I am simply fighting for the rights set out in the constitution." So pleaded Mihajlo Mihajlov last week as he stood before five stern-faced jud es in a courtroom at Novi Sad, about 75 miles northwest of Belgrade. For the 40-year-old dissident author, who was arrested last October, that fight involves denouncing his country's one-party system-even at his own trial. To no one's surprise, the justices, all of whom are members of the League of Yugoslav Communists, ignored his arguments and found him guilty...
Moscow's Least Favorite. If these articles were so offensive to Belgrade, asked Yugoslavia's Archheretic Milovan Djilas in a newspaper article last fall, why was Mihajlov not indicted when they first appeared? Answering his own question, Djilas notes that three years ago, the. historian's statements did not seem so threatening to the regime as they do now that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus...
Jailing Mihajlov might also be a sop to the Soviets, whose attitude toward Yugoslavia will be extremely important in the post-Tito era (TIME, Oct. 21). For a decade, Mihajlov has been the Kremlin's least favorite Yugoslav. His 1965 travelogue, Moscow Summer, was scathingly critical of the Soviet police state. Kremlin leaders were so angered by it that they pressured Belgrade to prosecute Mihajlov for "defaming a friendly power." Since then he has been tried three times and has served 3½ years in prison. This did not dissuade him, however, from warning in his recent articles that...
...Libya and Egypt in investing $400 million in a joint enterprise that will produce about 9 million tons t> of bauxite ore a year, an amount equal to 150% of Guinea's current output. Like similar deals arranged in the past two years with the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the joint venture with the Arabs underscores President Sekou Toure's point that Guinea is becoming less and less dependent on Western companies and markets...