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Except for a demonstration by 50 emigrant Serbs outside Blair House one day, the visit went off virtually without a hitch. At week's end, Nixon and Tito issued a joint communique heralding Yugoslavia's policy of nonalignment as "an important factor in international relations." Then Tito flew on to Houston for a tour of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center and to Los Angeles for a visit to the McDonnell Douglas plant before returning home via Canada this week...
...gone-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle. This week, barring a last-minute change in plans, a VIP helicopter will touch down on the south lawn of the White House and out will step a statesman who has earned a place alongside those formidable figures: President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia...
Ever since Tito's break with Stalin in 1948, Yugoslavia's survival as an independent state outside Soviet hegemony has been treated by successive American administrations as a matter of prime U.S. interest. In the talks that Tito will hold this week, he will probably emphasize that while Yugoslavia is in sympathy with Nixon's proclaimed "era of negotiations," it insists that such big-power exchanges must not ignore the interests of the smaller countries...
...Concept. The main object of the games was to test a new Yugoslav defense concept devised after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a development that has gone almost totally unnoticed abroad, Yugoslavia has quietly carried out the world's fastest buildup of conventional forces. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslav workers between the ages of 18 and 45 have been organized into a new auxiliary territorial army, supplementing the regular armed forces and fully equipped with heavy infantry, antitank and antiaircraft weaponry. By 1973 the number will grow to 3,000,000, giving the country...
Actor Richard Burton was rather nervous about his new role ("the most responsible and challenging of my career") as Yugoslavia's President Tito in the movie Sutjeska. So was Tito. "I think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman...