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...Yugoslavs are not expecting a Czechoslovakia-style invasion in the immediate future. But they fear that because the Helsinki declaration has in effect ratified Moscow's hegemony over Eastern Europe, the Soviets might be emboldened to step up their efforts to curb the independent behavior of Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...European Communist summit conference within the next few months, the meeting has been postponed until next year-largely because the Rumanians and Yugoslavs have defied Soviet attempts to hammer out a unified European Communist position on China. Both Bucharest and Belgrade have been cultivating their relations with Peking. Recently, Yugoslavia has even improved its traditionally hostile relations with neighboring Albania, Peking's surrogate in Europe (and the only European state that boycotted the Soviets' cherished Security Conference). Both Yugoslavia and Rumania pressed hard -and successfully-for a visit from President Ford immediately after Helsinki, as a symbolic reiteration...
Humoring Tito. In Yugoslavia, Soviet strategy seems to be to humor President Josip Broz Tito, who is 83 and ailing; a Mercedes ambulance outfitted with an emergency cardiac unit follows him wherever he goes within Yugoslavia. In the meantime, the Soviets are wooing as many of Tito's numerous would-be successors as possible. Rumania presents them with a far trickier problem. Ceauçescu is a healthy 57 and may well be around for some time. To be sure, he has his internal enemies, who resent his "personality cult," his nepotistic elevation of his wife...
...public paces and signed the Helsinki declaration (see THE WORLD) with a warning that "we had better say what we mean and mean what we say or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer." But as he turned homeward this week, with stops in Rumania and Yugoslavia. Ford could count on very few of the personal political gains that customarily follow a presidential trip abroad. His stature at home may, in fact, have slipped...
...home from Helsinki, Ford planned similar short visits to Rumania and Yugoslavia, the most independent-minded East bloc nations. There, as in Poland, the implicit message of his presence would be clear: within the framework of detente, the U.S. would like to do what it can to encourage a spirit of independence in Eastern Europe...