Word: yugoslavic
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...from a couple of the world's most sensitive spots: India and Egypt, two countries that recently signed treaties of friendship with the Soviet Union, despite their professed allegiance to Tito's policy of nonalignment. In some respects a sort of Marxist Metternich, the Yugoslav President has done a shrewd balancing act between the major powers with which Belgrade must deal. Recognizing that a triangular rivalry was inevitable among the U.S., the Soviet Union and China, he has tried to work himself into a livable relationship with all three...
...diplomatic bonds with Peking and extended an invitation to Premier Chou En-lai to visit Belgrade. Then he turned around and played host to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, with whom he joined in a declaration of friendship and cooperation. Now, closing the triangle, Tito is moving to enhance Yugoslav-American relations, which have been better than ever since President Nixon's 1970 state visit to Belgrade...
...realism, it was not a war but a war game-the largest Yugoslav maneuvers since World War II, involving some 40,000 regular army troops and innumerable armed civilians. The exercise, pointedly called "Freedom '71," was designed as a defiant answer to the summer-long Soviet threats and maneuvers against the Yugoslavs. Moscow was furious with Belgrade for cozying up to Peking. The Russians were also hoping to exploit the ancient regional rivalries and not so ancient economic quarrels that plague Yugoslavia...
...Concept. The main object of the games was to test a new Yugoslav defense concept devised after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a development that has gone almost totally unnoticed abroad, Yugoslavia has quietly carried out the world's fastest buildup of conventional forces. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslav workers between the ages of 18 and 45 have been organized into a new auxiliary territorial army, supplementing the regular armed forces and fully equipped with heavy infantry, antitank and antiaircraft weaponry. By 1973 the number will grow to 3,000,000, giving the country...
...think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman doctor, a partisan who was badly wounded, had both legs amputated and died later," said Burton. But nothing came of it for some reason-sparing audiences the unsettling experience of a legless...