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...party control of industry, first to bow to the efficiencies of the profit system, first actively to seek competition in world markets. Now it is first in the Bloc again-this time with a hard-sell invitation to Western capital to set up shop in conjunction with state-owned Yugoslavian firms...
Under a new, precedent-breaking foreign-investment code, Western firms will be allowed to provide up to 50% of a Yugoslavian company's capital. Foreign partners will be guaranteed not only their share of profits but also the right to pull out when they see fit. Almost apologetically, Yugoslavian Federal Assembly President Edvard Kardelj assures his Communist colleagues that the investment code was the only alternative to "becoming an economic and political appendage of the more developed countries...
...Status, No Seat. Prosperous on its own and already privy to such Western money sources as the International Monetary Fund (of which it is the only Communist member), Yugoslavia is not after cash so much as other kinds of capital. To compete in export markets, Yugoslavian companies sorely need Western patents, processes, sales contacts and simple managerial know...
...campus. Owner Stan Heilburn considers his store "a propaganda agency for LSD users, to counter the effects of a bad press." The propaganda works-at least in Ohio: 200 to 300 people press in on weekday nights; weekends, up to a thousand customers clamor for medium-priced trivia, including Yugoslavian pipes ($3.00), and off-beat books and records. "We sell a lot of things that are generally available," concedes Heilburn. But the psychedelic label adds a commercial gloss. "It puts things in a new light. This is what makes these places...
Even on a lesser scale, economic sanctions have usually backfired. Moscow's attempt to elbow Marshal Tito into line in 1948 only forced the Yugoslavian Communist leader to turn to the West for trade-and drove him further from the Stalinist camp. The Organization of African Unity's solemn pledge to boycott all South African goods has been a joke: Zambia gets at least half its consumer products from Johannesburg, and the government-owned airline of leftist Mali serves South African oranges to its passengers...