Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freedom '71," was designed as a defiant answer to the summer-long Soviet threats and maneuvers against the Yugoslavs. Moscow was furious with Belgrade for cozying up to Peking. The Russians were also hoping to exploit the ancient regional rivalries and not so ancient economic quarrels that plague Yugoslavia...
...hopes of reducing the centrifugal strains on his country, President Tito last July established a collective presidency and granted considerable autonomy to the country's six republicans and two provinces. It remains to be seen, however, whether the reforms will keep Yugoslavia together once the unifying presence of Tito, 79, is gone-and lately the Soviets have seemed to be looking for an excuse to intervene. Consequently, though Tito and Leonid Brezhnev exchanged conciliatory pledges in Belgrade last month, the Yugoslavs went right ahead with their maneuvers less than two weeks after the Soviet party leader's departure...
...case generated waves from Moscow to Manhattan. As soon as Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev returned to the Soviet capital from his three-day visit to Yugoslavia, he took the extraordinary step of convening an emergency meeting of the 15-man Politburo right on the premises of Vnukovo Airport. The high-level conference, which forced a 24-hour delay of a state dinner in honor of India's visiting Premier Indira Gandhi, might have dealt with the still-mysterious goings-on in China. But it might also have dealt with the difficult problem of how the Kremlin should react...
...soon as Brezhnev stepped from his gleaming Ilyushin Il-62 jetliner at Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through...
...Yugoslavs pressed the Soviet leader for a clear-cut renunciation of the Brezhnev doctrine and reaffirmation of the Belgrade and Moscow declarations of the mid-'50s. These had ended the Stalinist campaigns against Yugoslavia by proclaiming the right of all Communist countries to find their own path to Marxism. Brezhnev gave his hosts some satisfaction by seeming to dismiss "the doctrine of limited sovereignty" as a "fabrication" by the West and pledging his own support of the old declarations. However, Brezhnev's assurances were semantically slippery. He said that the Belgrade and Moscow declarations had to be understood...