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BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
DIED. Franjo Seper, 76, Yugoslavia-born Cardinal who was an influential member of the Vatican hierarchy as head of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Holy Office), a post he served in from 1968 to 1981; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...result is not just what Yugoslavia's Communist-turned-critic, Milovan Djilas, denounced 24 years ago as a "new class"; it is a new aristocracy. Among its most visible and prestigious members are the military. According to Johns Hopkins University Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, "The Soviet military elite has become a privileged and self-perpetuating caste. As just one indication, 70% of the Odessa High Artillery Military School graduates a few years ago were sons of active duty officers...
...shipping 40 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Western Europe, or about one-fourth of the area's estimated natural-gas needs. Warned Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, trekked to Europe for some last-minute lobbying to block the deal...
...explain that the responsibility system is not really a departure from collective agriculture because the state-owned land cannot be bought or sold by the farmers. Still, China's bold new experiment is the closest thing to rural private enterprise in the Communist world, outside of Poland and Yugoslavia...