Word: yugoslavic
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...week long banner headlines told of the ferocious battles. Yugoslav television carried filmed reports of the fighting and a somber briefing by a major general on each day's action. One big Zagreb daily put out a special battlefield edition for the troops...
...cited the employment of a Yugoslav economist in the current DAS project in Peru as an example that, "in the future, it will not be unheard of for us to support socialism...
...speech to 2,000 workers in an electronics plant outside Belgrade, Brezhnev lauded the right of each country to build its own form of Communism. Then he turned around and implied that the Soviets reject the Yugoslav system of self-management, which grants considerable local initiative and democracy in contrast to the rigid, centrally controlled Soviet setup...
Breathing Space. In his private talks with Tito and the five-man Yugoslav delegation, Brezhnev irritated the Yugoslavs by praising at length the attitude of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. While welcoming any easing of East-West tensions, the Yugoslavs are apprehensive that Brandt's Ostpolitik might be interpreted as an acceptance of Soviet overlordship in Eastern Europe-an idea the Yugoslavs strongly reject...
...into a severe inflationary problem. Despite a partial price and wage freeze last December, the cost of living is now rising at an annual rate of about 14%. A 20% devaluation of the dinar early this year failed to quench the thirst for foreign goods or boost Yugoslav exports. As a consequence, Yugoslavia has a trade deficit of $1.2 billion, with a gross national product of only $14 billion. Two large invisible assets, however, help close the actual payments gap. Foreign tourists bring Yugoslavia some $400 million, while the 800,000 or so Yugoslavs who work in West Germany...