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Fluttering banners proclaimed: "Tito belongs to us. We belong to Tito." More than 100,000 throats cheered his appearance in Pristina's "Brotherhood and Unity Square" in southern Yugoslavia. But Tito was in anything but a brotherly mood. The country's unity, he warned, was threatened by "a knife in the back." "The whole of Yugoslavia is full of bitterness," he added. "They are striking behind our back unexpectedly...
Latin v. Cyrillic. The target of Tito's wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...Sinyavsky and Daniel in the U.S.S.R., Mihajlov in Yugoslavia, Jacek Kuron and Karol Modzelewski in Poland...
...filed stiff diplomatic protests with the Chinese foreign ministry. Not sparing the few non-Communists in Peking, Red Guards also forced a French diplomat to stand for seven hours in Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside the Baghdad embassy of the Soviet Union: "Hang the bastard Brezhnev...
Jamaica without Sir Alexander Bustamante? It is like Ethiopia without Haile Selassie, Yugoslavia without Tito. A white-maned half-caste who seemed a kind of quixotic king to the island's poor back-country blacks, Bustamante organized the widespread riots that won the Caribbean country a large measure of self-rule in the 1940s, led Jamaica to complete independence from Britain five years ago, and since then has served as the country's Prime Minister. Last week Sir Alexander, ailing and half-blind at 83, resigned as head of government and called new national elections...