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...President has recently taken measures-often draconian-to limit the possibility of disorder after his death or disablement. He has put down even the faintest signs of an outbreak of traditional hostility between Serbs, Croats and other Yugoslav nationalities. In a series of new laws that are expected to go into effect this month, he has sharply restricted religious activity, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, on the ground that it is backing illicit "nationalism." Thousands of government officials have been purged as suspected troublemakers. In an attempt to ensure an orderly succession, Tito has decreed that his powers...
Cabled TIME European Correspondent William Rademaekers, after a recent visit to Belgrade: "As far as the Yugoslav army is concerned, there is only one real threat to this country, the Soviet Union, and all of their contingency planning and strategy is directed at meeting that threat. As for the Yugoslav Communists, their power depends on maintaining a great distance from the orthodoxy prescribed by the Soviet Party." Western specialists believe that Soviet agents are already involved in what is euphemistically called "destabilization operations" in Yugoslavia. That may explain why 32 so-called Cominformists* were arrested in Yugoslavia...
...Kremlin. The unmistakable message: there are limits to Yugoslavia's tolerance of Soviet interference. At a recent meeting of the Presidium, Party Chief Stane Dolanc denounced "Cominformists" as "traitors to our country." Another Party leader spoke balefully of "black clouds of Stalinism hovering over the horizon." The Yugoslav press has published a host of articles apparently designed to educate younger Party members about the nature of the 1948 dispute with Moscow. The past six issues of the leading weekly newsmagazine NIN, for example, have carried a blow-by-blow account of the Tito-Stalin break...
...another show of independence, the Yugoslav Communists have joined with the renegade parties of Rumania and Italy to try to stall or even prevent Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's grand scheme for a European Communist Party Conference (TIME, Dec. 8). The Yugoslavs are also quietly exploring the possibility of buying fighter planes and radar and anti-aircraft defense systems from the U.S., in order to make Yugoslavia less dependent on the U.S.S.R. for maintenance of its Soviet-manufactured arsenal...
...Yugoslav term for Soviet agents or sympathizers, derived from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), which was founded by the Soviets in 1947, ostensibly to coordinate the activities of Communist states but actually to reinforce Stalinist control over Eastern Europe...