Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thaws and Freezes. In addition to putting blatant pressures on Rumania, the Soviets have been demanding from Yugoslavia overflight rights for their warplanes and bunkering privileges for Russian warships at Yugoslavia's Adriatic ports. In an accompanying orchestration of political threats, Soviet officials privately warned that Yugoslavia's regional rivalries and its decentralization program were endangering the primacy of Communism in the country...
Recently, however, the Soviet approach has appeared to undergo a change-in keeping with a history of alternate thaws and freezes in the Kremlin's attitude to Yugoslavia. Brezhnev's visit to Belgrade was suggested by the Russians as a conciliatory gesture...
BREZHNEV IN BELGRADE: With Brandt back home, Brezhnev is scheduled to call on Yugoslavia's President Josip Tito in Belgrade this week. The talks will provide an important clue to Soviet intentions toward the independent-minded Yugoslavs. Will Brezhnev, in the interests of European detente, accept Yugoslavia's unorthodox experiments in political and economic decentralization? How will he deal with Yugoslavia's flirtation with China...
...climate for this week's meeting has been improved by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's apparent decision not to visit Albania, Rumania and Yugoslavia this fall. For several months, Moscow had grumbled about the formation of a sort of pro-Peking Tirana-Bucharest-Belgrade axis. Moscow was even dropping ominous hints of military intervention against Rumania and Yugoslavia, but the Russians now seem to have cooled off. After Belgrade, Brezhnev's next whistlestop is Paris in late October...
...foreigners hardly knew what to make of him. His tantrum at a press conference after the collapse of the Paris summit seemed to reveal either a man whose emotions were temporarily out of control or perhaps an actor at the height of his powers. On one memorable occasion in Yugoslavia, he rolled in the dust of a rural roadside in an impromptu wrestling match with Georgy Malenkov. During his 1960 visit to the United Nations, he called ceremoniously on Fidel Castro at his hotel in Harlem, and conducted a flamboyant press conference from the balcony of the Soviet embassy...