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...YUGOSLAV Airlines' Flight 367 from Stockholm to Belgrade had just passed over the northern border of Czechoslovakia last week when an explosion shook the plane. The bomb-stricken DC-9 fell from the skies and crashed near the Bohemian town of Česká Kamenice, killing all but one of the 28 people aboard. A few hours later, another bomb went off on the Ljubljana-to-Belgrade express outside Zagreb, injuring six passengers...
Both blasts, it appears certain, were the work of émigré Croatian terrorists, who want independence for their homeland from rule by Yugoslavia's central government. The well-timed incidents provided a grim counterpoint to an urgent meeting of Yugoslav political leaders in Belgrade. As a result of earlier separatist agitation in Croatia (TIME, Dec. 27), which had been a direct challenge to Yugoslavia's federal system, President Josip Broz Tito, nearly 80 but amazingly robust, had summoned 367 of the nation's political leaders to Belgrade for a three-day party conference. The basic issue...
...wake of the student strike in Zagreb last November, which led to Tito's subsequent crackdown in Croatia, Yugoslav officials claim that the eleven accused ringleaders of the alleged conspiracy were plotting a full-scale general strike as a prelude to an uprising in support of Croatian independence. Meanwhile, some 400 Communist officials, including Tripalo and Dabčevič-Kučar, have been purged from their posts, and more firings may follow. The trials of the conspirators will probably begin in March...
...showdown began three weeks ago when 30,000 Croatian students went out on strike in support of the nationalistic demands. The revolt convinced Tito that the republic's Communist leaders had lost control of the situation and that Yugoslav unity was endangered. He denounced the strike as "counterrevolutionary" and sharply criticized Croatian party leaders for allowing the separatist forces to exploit the republic's economic grievances. At a hastily convened conference of Croatian leaders, Tito declared that he had lost faith in their promises to work harder at controlling the separatists. "Criticism as a kind of confession, followed...
...rebuilding of the Croatian party. He is Vladimir Bakarić, 59, who is a member of the Executive Bureau in Belgrade, which is the party's equivalent of a collective federal presidency. He favors greater economic and political autonomy for Croatia but within the framework of the Yugoslav federation...