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Unlike Hungary, some 85% of Yugoslavia's cultivated land is privately owned, but the country gains little from that. Private landholdings average less than eight acres; farmers cannot benefit from any economies of scale. Says Davor Savin, counselor to the President of the Federal Assembly: "It results from the theory that socialism should prevent farmers from being old-style capitalists." Partly for this reason, Yugoslavs spend 65% of their income on food, vs. 35% in Hungary...
Private enterprise has gained a toehold in Yugoslavia, but to a far lesser extent than in Hungary: only 12% of GNP, vs. 25% to 30%. The Yugoslavs have been far more reticent than the Hungarians in encouraging a "second economy." Yugoslavia's socialism does not guarantee job security, and allows prices to rise at near-market rates. Thus it has been plagued by ills that can afflict free-market economies: unemployment stands at 15% and inflation at 80%. Strikes, a theoretical impossibility in a system where workers are the bosses, are on the rise...
Nonetheless, in the wee hours in downtown Belgrade, Yugoslavia's troubles are invisible. At the crowded Star discothèque, the local jeunesse dorée shows off in Benetton sweaters and Pierre Cardin shirts. Yugoslavs admit that things could be much better in their version of the workers' paradise. But their restiveness is still curbed by the knowledge that things could also be much worse. --By George Russell. Reported by Kenneth W. Banta/Belgrade and Budapest
Since that time, Abu Nidal's followers have killed P.L.O. representatives in Paris, London and Kuwait. They have also launched attacks on P.L.O. offices and personnel in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland. In 1982, Arafat accused Abu Nidal of being a hireling of MOSSAD, Israel's elite intelligence agency. That did not put an end to the fratricide: in April 1983, members of the Abu Nidal organization killed moderate P.L.O. Spokesman Issam Sartawi at a meeting of the Socialist International in Albufeira, Portugal...
...half blind, senile and emaciated" Andrija Artukovic be tried for his wartime activities in Yugoslavia [WORLD, Feb. 24]? If found guilty, and there is no doubt that he will be in Yugoslavia, to whom will justice be done? He will not be able to understand the proceedings. Such "justice" comes close to the practice of the Dark Ages, when high officials or rulers, even Popes, were dug from their graves, brought into the courtroom, and condemned to be executed. (The Rev.) Hubert S. Szanto Orange, Calif. Computer's Birth...