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IGNORING two protest letters from a cluster of usually pro-Administration academics, Secretary of State Dean Rusk has remained steadfast in his refusal to grant Yugoslavian author Vladimir Dedijer a visa to teach at M.I.T. this spring. Rusk's ban is clearly a frightened, anti-Communist reaction, revealing more clearly than ever how vulnerable the Administration considers itself on the Vietnam...
...lanky Yugoslavian scored twice in the first quarter, and Harvard's defense had to hang on for three periods to save the shutout. The forward line got off 25 other shots in the game, but it could not score again...
Toward Waterloo. Ironically, says Halle, Stalin himself felt that Russia was overextended after the fait accompli that gave Moscow control over Eastern Europe. He also argued vehemently against the Yugoslavian-backed attempt to communize Greece by guerrilla warfare. Stalin asked the Yugoslavs: "Do you think that Great Britain and the U.S. - the U.S., the most powerful state in the world - will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean? Nonsense." Stalin was right: the Truman Doctrine grew out of that struggle, and Stalin's successors could never expand their empire...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Five Branded Women (1960), starring Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina in a World War II story of revenge in a small Yugoslavian town...
Western businessmen may still be wary. Yugoslavian firms are unalterably state-owned, run by managers vaguely responsible to "supervisory councils" of workers elected by the rank and file. Foreign partners will receive no legal ownership status-not even a seat on the often obstreperous workers' councils, which have been known to vote themselves unconscionable wage increases. As far as a voice in management goes, investors can lay down policy guidelines when they sign initial contracts with individual Yugoslav companies; thereafter they will be pretty much limited to keeping unofficial advisers at the Yugoslavian managers' elbows...