Word: yugoslavia
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...contrast, East Germans will find in Poland a relative freedom of speech that they cannot enjoy at home. Besides nonaligned Yugoslavia, the only other country to remain outside the new arrangements is the Soviet Union itself, whose citizens remain less free to travel than those of any other nation in the Warsaw Pact...
...reason he can afford it is that despite the indictment, Jones' worldwide gambling ventures are apparently thriving. "I'm just now getting some deals going," he says. He returned to the U.S. two weeks ago from an inspection visit to his overseas casinos, including one in Yugoslavia. He also continues to protest his innocence: "All my misfortunes seem to come from trying to do somebody a favor...
...four nights last week, students rioted in the Croatian city of Zagreb. The demonstrations, which left 400 students under arrest, were one of the worst outbreaks of civil disorder in Yugoslavia since the Communists took control more than 26 years ago. What brought on the violence was a long-simmering dispute between the 4,300,000 fiery-tempered Croats, who form the second-largest and politically most troublesome of Yugoslavia's six republics, and their ancient enemies the Serbs, who have traditionally dominated the central government in Belgrade...
Shades of Nikita. Podgorny's position may have proved to be stronger than Brezhnev had suspected. In recent months Brezhnev has somewhat softened his positions on Yugoslavia's independence, mutual troop reductions and diplomatic deals with the West; he has even personally forced the intransigent East Germans to agree to concessions in the Berlin negotiations. As a result, a number of disgruntled marshals and industrial managers have rallied round Podgorny, who has become the rep resentative of the extreme hard line within the Kremlin...
...about cornered the market on dissident Communists," says Actor Richard Burton. Having just finished playing Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito (TIME, Oct. 18), he is now Stalin's mortal enemy, Leon Trotsky, in The Assassination of Trotsky, being filmed in Rome by U.S. Director Joseph Losey. Elizabeth Taylor anxiously monitored the scene in which the murderer, played by French Actor Alain Delon, sneaks up behind Trotsky with an Alpine ice ax hidden under his coat. Delon claimed to be so wrapped up in his role that he was afraid he might actually kill Burton. "There are plenty of French...