Word: yugoslavian
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...addition to--or reflecting--the economic conflict over Yugoslavia's desire to industrialize fast, there were ideological strains. The Soviet Union felt that Tito was insufficiently hostile to wealthy peasants, and insufficiently eager to start rapid collectivization of agriculture. (There weren't many wealthy peasants in Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslavian Communist Party included more small peasants wary of rapid collectivization than the Bolsheviks who relied more on urban workers...
With a total of 47 Nobel peace prize nominees, including such divergent figures as Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, Richard Nixon and Viet Nam War Critic Daniel Ellsberg, any decision was bound to be controversial. But the selection last week of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Chief Negotiator Le DuC Tho for their efforts in attaining a cease-fire in Viet Nam aroused an unprecedented storm of criticism...
...fighting, that was decisive in rolling back Syrian ground forces. Leading the assault from a front-line halftrack, Elazar took the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in a mere 15 hours, audaciously advancing straight into withering Syrian artillery fire. Terse and direct, Elazar is known by his Yugoslavian nickname, "Dado." He is also called "Bulldog," for, as one Israeli officer put it: "His bulldog fighting technique is to take a good big bite and then hang...
...Yugoslavian forward Dragan Vujovic, a talented if inconsistent forward, put up with passport hassles which delayed his arrival last Fall but finally decided to chuck Harvard in the Spring after realizing the uselessness of a Harvard education in Eastern Europe. He, like Hinze, returned home. Thus the offense lost three of four starters, with the oddity being that only one actually graduated...
...first signs of Tito's new turn appeared a little more than a year ago. His country was hit simultaneously by a shattering economic crunch and an outbreak of Croatian nationalism violent enough to stir fears that the Yugoslavian Federation might soon break up in tribal chaos. Evidently convinced that he had to restore tight, centralized control, Tito turned to the party, the only institution in the country, outside of the army, that could enforce order and discipline. Ever since, the party has been struggling to regain the central role in Yugoslavia's political and economic life that...