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There was one ominous note in Yugoslav Foreign Minister Miloŝ Minić's speech of welcome to the 150 delegates who assembled in Belgrade last week for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Wishing the dignitaries a pleasant stay, Minic warned against "sinister forces" that oppose detente and engage in "propaganda campaigns" and "terrorism...
...Moscow, sought to draw attention to their plight by going on hunger strikes. In various Communist and Western countries, demonstrators organized protests or stood in silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security police swooped down on them in their hotel and deported them before they could get near the conference hall. In Manhattan, three Croatian terrorists barricaded themselves inside the Yugoslav mission to the U.N. in an attempt to publicize their national aspirations...
...Mondale flew on to Belgrade to pay a call on Yugoslav Communist Leader Josip Broz Tito, Washington's U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young was preparing to go from the Mozambican capital of Maputo to South Africa. In Mozambique, where he attended a 92-nation U.N. conference on Rhodesia and Namibia, Young had held private talks with Mozambican President Samora Machel and other African leaders. He irritated some delegates by comparing southern Africa to the American South and by advocating peaceful transition to African majority rule. Robert Mugabe, a leader of Rhodesia's militant Patriotic Front, found the speech "hollow...
Global cooling might be explained by a link between ice ages and changes both in the earth's attitude and in its orbit around the sun. That concept was championed by Germany's Alfred Wegener (best known for his ideas about continental drift) and later refined by Yugoslav Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, for whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor...
...dysentery. Largely because of the mass exodus of Portuguese whites, the country has only one doctor for every 12,000 people. The few foreign visitors allowed into the country are appalled by the chaos. Transportation and other public service facilities, when existing at all, are in disrepair. Says a Yugoslav engineer, "Everything is falling apart...