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...fulfill their religious obligations, a group of well-to-do Yugoslav Moslems made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and then visited Baghdad before returning to the Serbian province of Kosovo. Most brought gifts from Iraq. Yugoslav health officials suspect that some also brought back variola major, the most virulent form of smallpox. Two weeks after their homecoming -variola's incubation period-several of the travelers came down with smallpox, triggering an epidemic that has infected 155 and killed at least 28 in just a month. Only now is the outbreak being brought under control...
Health authorities quickly moved against the spreading epidemic. Seven American specialists carrying 3,000,000 doses of vaccine and armed with jet injection guns capable of inoculating 1,000 people an hour were rushed to assist Yugoslav health workers in a nationwide immunization campaign. European countries donated vaccine through the World Health Organization. Hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavs responded to government appeals and stood in long lines to be vaccinated...
Meanwhile, German officials called a smallpox alert after a Yugoslav worker from Kosovo, newly arrived in Hannover, came down with the disease. He was immediately put in isolation, and officials rounded up 665 people known to have had some contact with him. They were being held in quarantine while the search went on for the 666th and last person believed to have been exposed...
...Kremlinologist; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Thompson made deft use of two valuable assets: patience and a thorough knowledge of his opponent. The career Foreign Service officer successfully negotiated the Austrian State Treaty with the Russians, ending Austria's postwar occupation, and the Trieste settlement resolving the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over the Adriatic seaport. His two tours as Ambassador to Moscow (1957-62 and 1967-69) covered some explosive moments in U.S.-Soviet relations, including the U-2 incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with Soviet leaders. He was also valued...
...their speeches, Tito and the other leaders were careful to stress that they had no intention of returning to the harsh old police-state technique that prevailed in Yugoslavia before the ouster of former Secret Police Chief Aleksandar Rankovic in 1966. "We have experienced state socialism [the Yugoslav euphemism for Stalinism]" said Montenegrin Party Leader Veselin Djuranović, "and we never want to experience it again." Even so, tighter party rule will almost inevitably mean greater political controls, and perhaps even an increased role for the secret police, as has already happened in Croatia. In their efforts to combat nationalism...