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...China. Domestically, in 35 years they have introduced four different concepts of communism, four constitutions, and three wrenching changes in government. Abroad, China was at one time a close ally of the Soviet Union and of Vietnam, but has since invaded both. Formerly on Albania's side against Yugoslavia, it has now reversed position...
Sometimes the people moved the wrong way, however. Much of the series was shot in Yugoslavia, including scenes of Polish refugees fleeing the invading Nazis. Hundreds of Yugoslav peasants were carefully assembled for the desperate flight, when rain sent them scurrying for home. "They were there with their animals," explains Associate Producer Barbara Steele, "and they weren't going to give their cows pneumonia...
...Fuscos hope their emulation of the Clearys doesn't end at the collegiate level. Both Mark and Scott have their eyes on spending a couple of weeks in Sarajevo. Yugoslavia for the 1984 Olympic games...
DIED. Vladimir Bakarit, 70, vice president of Yugoslavia and the last of Josip Broz Tito's comrades-in-arms still in power; after a long illness; in Zagreb. A Croatian lawyer and a Communist Party member since 1933, he joined Tito's partisan army during World War II and served as its political commissar, later rising to membership in the party's ruling Politburo. Under the rotating system of collegial presidency in use since Tito's death, Bakaric was due to become chief of state this spring...
...International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports that 32 countries were in arrears on their debts in 1981, compared with 15 in 1975. Yugoslavia ($19 billion) is meeting its obligations...