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...that Janko Smole, president of the executive council of the Yugoslav state of Slovenia, found himself confronted with noisy objections fortnight ago in the regional legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure...
Rankovic, 56, turned out to be the head of a conspiracy, centered in the secret police, that opposed Yugoslavia's trend toward democracy and Western-style economic reforms. Tito purged the secret police; Rankovic and his fellow conspirators were ordered to stand trial before the Yugoslav Parliament. Evidence showed that Rankovic had wire taps leading back to his home and office, so he could tune in on the boss day or night, and that his agent had once taped a Politburo meeting so secret none of the participants were even allowed to take notes...
When Mihajlo Mihajlov was arrested and sentenced to a year in jail for trying to put out a magazine in opposition to the Yugoslav regime, his youthful colleagues vowed to carry on without...
They did not carry on for long. In simultaneous arrests last week in Zadar, Zagreb and Belgrade, the Yugoslav police picked up all five of the magazine's remaining editors and charged them with conspiracy and spreading propaganda hostile to the state. They may face an even harsher sentence than Mihajlov's; and their arrest suggests that his last-ditch appeal to the Yugoslav high court is a hopeless effort...
...private life or his personality. Nor do they discuss his opponents. No paper has spoken up for Milovan Djilas, Tito's former friend, now serving a sentence for advocating that his country take the Western road. And, though it was a top story in the Western press, no Yugoslav paper had anything to say in defense of Mihajlo Mihajlov, the 32-year-old writer who just began a one-year sentence for trying to start a magazine in opposition to the regime...