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Aftershocks and a shortage of medical supplies have hampered rescue efforts. East German and Yugoslav tourists are reportedly vying for airplane tickets to leave the area...
DIED. Edvard Kardelj, 69, Yugoslav Communist ideologist and heir apparent to President Tito; of cancer; in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. When his nation was expelled from the Soviet-led Cominform in 1948, Vice President Kardelj devised its new ideological foundation, granting greater freedom to local factories and party cells as well as pioneering a foreign policy of nonalignment. Until taken ill five years ago, the loyal official was widely expected to succeed Tito...
...marriage of the year or a crude political hoax? Belgrade was buzzing with rumors last week after stories appeared in the Western press reporting that Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 86, had married Gertrude Minutic, an opera singer 51 years his junior. According to the unconfirmed reports, which surfaced while Tito was on a "mission of peace to the Middle East," he had taken his fourth bride after divorcing his estranged wife Jovanka, 54. A Yugoslav government spokesman angrily dismissed the stories as a "dirty trick" perpetrated by Tito's political opponents abroad...
Well-placed Yugoslavs were putting out two variations on the wedding-march theme. According to one version, Tito has "definitely" divorced Jovanka after 26 years of marriage. In disgrace for the past two years, she has been given a modest flat in Belgrade and a pension befitting a major in the Yugoslav army, the rank she held in Tito's World War II partisan forces. Meanwhile, Tito was smitten with Minutic, a Junoesque blond with a faint resemblance to Actress Anita Ekberg, after seeing her perform last summer. A "serious relationship exists," say the sources, but no marriage...
...grand old adventure saga of 1961, and to stir hopes that we are in for more of the same 18 years later. In other words, this is an implied rather than an actual sequel. In the new film the lines behind which our guys are operating are Yugoslav. The mission of Force 10 is twofold: to kill a traitor who has been betraying Partisan secrets to the Chetniks and to destroy a bridge over which the Germans must mount their big offensive. The late Robert Shaw and Edward Fox are in charge of the former activity, Harrison Ford the latter...