Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have gone with the presidency to produce this event, the few minutes in the weak sun of a clear China morning are - well, perhaps they are pure Chinese. Think of the great entries of other journeys. Cheering, shouting, jumping, massed hundreds of thousands. Nixon in Mexico, in Rumania, in Yugoslavia. Great sounds swelled then over the President and he glowed, measuring the effects. But the most momentous journey of his life - and any President's life in recent years - is producing the most anticlimactic arrival...
...broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe, RFE's audience is impressive...
Both blasts, it appears certain, were the work of émigré Croatian terrorists, who want independence for their homeland from rule by Yugoslavia's central government. The well-timed incidents provided a grim counterpoint to an urgent meeting of Yugoslav political leaders in Belgrade. As a result of earlier separatist agitation in Croatia (TIME, Dec. 27), which had been a direct challenge to Yugoslavia's federal system, President Josip Broz Tito, nearly 80 but amazingly robust, had summoned 367 of the nation's political leaders to Belgrade for a three-day party conference. The basic issue...
Doing His Utmost. Yugoslavia's separatist problem has become worse at the very time when Tito is doing his utmost to solve it. His efforts have centered on an attempt to reduce tensions between the Serbs, Yugoslavia's dominant group (8.5 million), and the neighboring Croats, who are the country's second most numerous nationality (4.3 million) and politically its most troublesome. Relations between the two ethnic groups, never good, were tragically bloodied during World War II when pro-Nazi Croats slaughtered some 100,000 Serbs living in Croatia...
...their speeches, Tito and the other leaders were careful to stress that they had no intention of returning to the harsh old police-state technique that prevailed in Yugoslavia before the ouster of former Secret Police Chief Aleksandar Rankovic in 1966. "We have experienced state socialism [the Yugoslav euphemism for Stalinism]" said Montenegrin Party Leader Veselin Djuranović, "and we never want to experience it again." Even so, tighter party rule will almost inevitably mean greater political controls, and perhaps even an increased role for the secret police, as has already happened in Croatia. In their efforts to combat nationalism...