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...skyjackers, who were determined not to release the Lufthansa plane or its passengers until the released prisoners were safely in Libya, refused to accept any arrangement. Instead, they ordered Claussen to keep flying over Yugoslavia until the prisoners landed in Zagreb. Fuel ran so low that the captain had to cut off two of his three engines; if the third one shut down, the terrorists warned, they would simply blow up the plane...
Straying Parties. Still iron-willed at 80, Tito seemed more determined than ever to prevent any division of Yugoslavia into separate states after his death. Such a prospect has always haunted him, and with reason. Five major national groups compose the fragile fabric of Yugoslav unity: the fiercely independent Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians. Twenty years ago Tito granted a measure of autonomy to the Communist parties that rule Yugoslavia's six republics. But such decentralization served to encourage separatist aspirations. As a result, Tito decided to centralize and discipline the straying parties. Since last December, when Tito...
Among the first victims of the new purge was one of Yugoslavia's most able advocates of democratization, Marko Nikezić, 51, the chairman of the Serbian Communist Party. Accused of excessive liberalism, the burly, crew-cut Serbian had, in fact, attempted to dampen Serbian national fervor. He reportedly aroused Tito's ire last year by warning him against rising Croat separatism before Tito was ready to acknowledge it. Other prominent Serbs who resigned under pressure were Serbian Central Committee Secretary Latinka Perović and Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac. The premier of Slovenia, Stane...
...graduate from college cannot find jobs. In Western Europe and the U.S., campus after campus was until recently torn apart by student protest. Meanwhile, around the world, there have been independent educational experiments-scuole senza muri (schools without walls) in Italy, radnicki universiteti (workmen's universities) in Yugoslavia, ensehanza en equipo (team teaching) in Spain, open schools in the U.S. Have such innovations helped education cure its ills and adapt to modern social and economic needs? If not, what might...
...cooperate in the war on drugs. Out in the field, U.S. ambassadors have been charged with driving the point home. In Turkey, Ambassador William Handley told friends: "In this embassy, careers depend on getting opium banned." In drug matters, the U.S. has been receiving close cooperation from Yugoslavia and even Bulgaria, but State Department officials gripe that "it's damned hard to get an Italian or a Belgian even to think about pollution, let alone drugs." In Latin America, only Mexico has been really responsive. Chile has flatly refused to help...