Word: yugoslavic
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...particularly interesting lead was provided by a letter that Markovic. wrote, shortly before his death, to his brother Aleksander, a Trieste businessman and once captain of the yacht of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. In that letter Stevan told his brother that "if anything happens to me, address yourself to Alain Delon, to his wife and to his associate Francois Marcantoni, a real gangster . . ." Police seized Marcantoni, once linked with the Corsican Mafia, and began putting him through a long series of interrogations that are still going on. So far, however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want...
...bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example, a man whom Siggy's mother loved but did not marry creates hysteria in Vienna by running around costumed as a Habsburg eagle. Siggy's real father is a Yugoslav who escapes on a motorcycle in 1944, during the terrible struggle between the German army, Tito's partisans, Mihailovich's Chetniks and a Croatian terrorist gang...
...turned out, Haywood was more than good enough. With the agility and speed of a backcourt guard, he un nerved opponents by blocking numerous shots, scoring 145 points and leading the team in rebounds. "He's the best amateur basketball player I've ever seen," exclaimed the Yugoslav coach after the U.S. had defeated his team for the gold medal...
...playing for the University of Detroit, Haywood has many a U.S. coach talking like the awed Yugoslav. Last week his average of 23.8 rebounds per game was best among major college players; he stood third in scoring (31 average) and ninth in field-goal percentage (62%), which places him ahead of Alcindor in the first two categories. In Detroit's 71-68 victory over then undefeated St. Bonaventure, Haywood bagged 15 points and 16 rebounds. His only apparent weaknesses: he can be forced into an occasional bad pass or haphazard shot...
...months before Warsaw Pact forces started maneuvers along that country's borders. The Russians are also engaging in considerable espionage and agitation among Yugoslavia's small bands of dissident nationalists. According to some reports, a suspicious number of pretty, miniskirted hitchhikers have blossomed on Yugoslav highways; in foreign accents, they ask drivers who give them lifts all sorts of unfeminine questions about Yugoslav troop deployments. Journalists from Warsaw Pact countries are more inquisitive than ever. Hungarian truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops...