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...delayed for up to six hours by frozen switches, and by the efforts of engineers who stopped to pick up stranded motorists in the open countryside. The sub-zero cold caused power shortages in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and East Berlin streets were blacked out to conserve electricity. In Yugoslavia, where drifts reached 16 ft. on major highways and to the second floor of buildings in the city of Sarajevo, local papers spoke of "the white catastrophe...
Shortly after Tito broke with Moscow in 1948, he defused the issue by signing an agreement, negotiated under British and U.S. auspices. The pact gave Italy administration over the city and Yugoslavia day-to-day control, though not formal sovereignty, over a 40-sq.-mi. area to the east of Trieste known as "Zone B." Since then, relations between the two countries have improved to the point where neither requires visas from the others citizens...
...pleased. In the Italian Parliament, rightwing Deputies asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro deliberately provocative questions about the possible "surrender" of Zone B during Tito's trip. Moro replied: "The government will not take into consideration any renunciation of legitimate national interests." Tito, hypersensitive to separatist tendencies in Yugoslavia's six republics, was in fact under pressure to seek formal sovereignty over Zone...
Died. Peter II, 47, last King of Yugoslavia; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Peter was eleven years old in 1934 when his father was assassinated; seven years later he took full control of the government from a council of regents and led a brief campaign against Axis invaders before fleeing to Britain. Formally deposed by the Tito government in 1945, the ex-monarch, who had left all his riches at home, worked as a public relations man in New York City in the early '50s, more recently as a savings and loan executive in California...
While overstated, and in part naive as far as Russia is concerned, Pisar's thesis is more relevant to Yugoslavia, Poland and the other Eastern countries, where increased contacts are part of a reform that also entails a measure of political relaxation. A notable exception is Rumania, where President Nicolae Ceauşescu combines a liberal, Western-oriented trade policy with a repressive domestic atmosphere at home. By the same token, the Soviet Union may well be shopping abroad for technology simply because it wants to avoid political liberalization...