Word: yugoslavia
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Twice before, the Soviets have made major efforts to win back Yugoslavia, but each time those overtures collapsed because of troubles within the East bloc. This time the Soviets seem more determined than ever, at least in part because Yugoslavia's independent brand of Marxism exerts an unsettling influence upon the rest of Eastern Europe...
Putting Up the Dog. Capitalist Wilson is also moving into Communist countries. He has licensed Intertower, a joint venture of Cyrus Eaton Jr. and Occidental Petroleum, to put up 36 inns in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; in most cases, the governments will own the inns. Encouraged by the talk of expanded East-West trade that surrounded the Nixon-Brezhnev summit, Wilson plans to travel to Moscow, probably in July, to sound out authorities about putting up motels in the Soviet Union. Says William Stratton, a Holiday Inns franchise director: "We haven't got to Antarctica...
...Sweden. Croatian terrorists assassinated the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm last year, claimed responsibility for blowing up a Belgrade-bound airliner and a train headed for Zagreb in January, and planted a bomb at the Yugoslav tourist office in the Swedish capital in March. Swedish tourists have begun to shun Yugoslavia, particularly after one group promised to plant more bombs on planes flying to Belgrade this summer...
...well be interested in keeping Croatian terror alive abroad as a means of disgracing Croatian nationalists at home. The Soviet KGB has also placed its agents among the Croatian terrorists. The Russians' long-range goal may be to turn Croatian nationalism to their own account, in hopes of bringing Yugoslavia back under Moscow's control after Tito passes from the scene. But for the short run, the Soviets could well have a different aim in mind: to prevent the Croats from striking too many sparks in the Balkan powder keg, thus endangering progress toward detente in Europe...
...Yugoslavia's population of 20.5 million is a combustible mixture of 8.6 million Serbs, 4.7 million Croats, 1.8 million Slovenes, 1.1 million Macedonians and 560,000 Montenegrins, plus some 3,000,000 Albanians, Hungarians, Turks and people of other ethnic groups...