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...news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying...
Among the passengers getting off a Yugoslav JAT airliner in Belgrade one afternoon late last month was a middle-aged Italian whose dark suit, white shirt and maroon tie only faintly concealed an unmistakable clerical look. Traveling in mufti, as he has on all of his 15 or more trips to Communist-ruled lands, Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, 51, had come to Belgrade to sign the historic protocol agreement re-establishing diplomatic ties between the Vatican and Yugoslavia after a 14-year break (TIME, July...
...years in the making, the Yugoslav protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...Padre Agostino." Some Vatican conservatives contend that Casaroli is too soft as a negotiator, concedes too much to the other side. The Yugoslav agreement, for instance, refers to "terrorism and analogous forms of political violence" that were allegedly committed by Catholic priests during World War II in Yugoslavia. Casaroli readily admits that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that...
Even in the realm of religion, the Yugoslavs are breaking fresh Communist ground. Hard on the heels of the conviction and sentencing of Poet Vladimir Gajsek for "provoking religious intolerance," Belgrade and the Vatican announced that this month they will sign an agreement according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church, particularly to teach the catechism and open seminaries...