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DIED. John Moors Cabot, 79, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Colombia, Poland and Sweden, who was one of the first foreign affairs specialists to anticipate the 1948 break between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and who represented the U.S. in the Warsaw negotiations that led to the resumption of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China in 1973; after a stroke; in Washington...
Lawrence Eagleburger, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, and Brent Scowcroft, who succeeded Kissinger as National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration...
Moreover, Yugoslavia did prosper during Tito's reign. And though Djilas does not credit Tito with these successes, his reasoning lacks credibility. In one paragraph he discounts the nation's economic achievements as compared with the Soviet bloc countries. Djilas says Tito's workmen's management system and all other economic programs did not help; instead, he attributes all of Yugoslavia's prosperity to its superior resources. And he doesn't even mention that Yugoslavia had 35 years of relative peace under Tito. Almost any other country would accept that kind of record...
...YUGOSLAVIA'S SURVIVAL without Tito will not be solely the result of the old man's actions. All Latin American rules are not judged incompetent simply because their countries have experienced non-stop turmoil. Yet Djilas uses this faulty logic to conclude that "the achievement makes the man, not the man the achievement." This is false--in any nation. To judge Tito without considering his environment is poor analysis and this is where Djilas fails...
George Washington helped establish the United States as a lasting representative state not only because he was a magnanimous man, but also because his era allowed him. Tito may have failed to create a lasting Yugoslavia, but his era did not permit him completely to impose his personality on the country. His worth as a man and as a leader cannot be determined merely by looking at Yugoslavia, as Djilas asserts. His goodness can only be decided by looking at what course he chose among his alternatives...