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Died. Dzemal Bijedic, 60, Premier of Yugoslavia; in a plane crash; near Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The son of Moslem shopkeepers, Bijedic joined the Communist Youth Movement and in World War II fought the Nazis as a member of Tito's Partisans. He became a politician in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was appointed Prime Minister by President Tito...
...most of the leaders. They will want reassurance that high-level briefings on security arrangements with the Soviet Union, mainly on SALT talks, will continue as they did under Kissinger. They will want to talk about the Middle East and southern Africa. A few want to bring up Yugoslavia, to get your personal reading on what Carter would really do if the Russians intervened there...
...suddenly shattered by the thundering explosions of tens of thousands of Soviet rockets and artillery shells. Then thousands of Soviet tanks, with dozens of motorized rifle divisions behind them, crash across the frontier into West Germany. Far to the south, Warsaw Pact forces blast into Turkey and through Yugoslavia toward Italy, while the Soviet Fleet moves in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to neutralize NATO's warships...
...maintain calm in the Soviet Union's backyard, while it deals with Washington and Peking, Moscow has been trying to mend a few fences in Eastern Europe. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Belgrade-his first journey to Yugoslavia in five years. The effusive Brezhnev greeted Yugoslav President Josi f Broz Tito with three kisses and an exuberant bear hug. This was one more Slavic smooch than usual -perhaps an index of how anxious Moscow is to improve relations with the independent Yugoslavs. At an official dinner at the Federal Executive Council Building, Brezhnev ridiculed...
...briefing volume was prepared on every department and agency. The State Department volume, for example, contains contingency plans for Yugoslavia, discussions about opening a dialogue with Viet Nam, budget reviews. It reaffirms the need for a strong Secretary who is capable of "withstanding pressures from the munitions industry" and recommends that the national security adviser be confined to staff responsibilities, not policymaking...