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...miles northwest of Belgrade. For the 40-year-old dissident author, who was arrested last October, that fight involves denouncing his country's one-party system-even at his own trial. To no one's surprise, the justices, all of whom are members of the League of Yugoslav Communists, ignored his arguments and found him guilty of disseminating hostile propaganda against Yugoslavia and of associating with foreign emigre groups. His sentence: seven years imprisonment...
...migrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting "to reintroduce total dictatorship in all vital spheres...
Soviet-built bazookas. One round plowed into an airport catering building. A second ripped a hole in a Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner about to load passengers for Zagreb. No one was seriously injured, and the terrorists, believed to be Palestinians, escaped...
...this bleak landscape, there are a few interesting outcroppings. One is a kind of surrealism that owes more to Hieronymus Bosch than to Salvador Dali. The best examples, currently at the Aberbach Gallery, are the works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away...
...Advocacy. Because the Voice has always been a lifeline for dissidents in Communist countries, many apparently now feel let down. A prominent Yugoslav writer recently said: "The VGA is jamming itself-apparently out of some misguided spirit of detente." Pavel Litvinov, a Soviet intellectual now in exile in the U.S., gave a speech to Voice employees in the U.S.S.R. division in which he said: "The quality of your broadcasts to my country has declined 500% in the last few years." Astonishingly, the audience burst into applause...