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Politically and economically, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito likes to preserve his neutrality by playing East against West. But culturally, Yugoslavia has made her choice clear: freedom. The bold, abstract expressionism of Yugoslav painters has put them in the van of the avantgarde. Last week, during a week-long festival of international contemporary music in Zagreb, Yugoslav composers proved that they were as ready to accept far-out modernism as were their comrades at the easel. Sell-out audiences loudly approved...
...problem that President Josip Broz Tito worries out loud about from time to time is the widespread cynicism of Yugoslav youth toward his own particular brand of Communism."They do not think enough that their duty is to give to the community what they can," says Tito. Most students scorn Tito's voluntary "youth brigades" for road building, and they duck army service as long as possible by taking an average of seven years to complete a five-year university course. Many drift into the gangs of delinquents who make a living scalping sports tickets or stealing parts from...
...Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland." Yugoslav diplomats, hounded by the police and sometimes beaten and cursed, decided last month to clear out. Departing for home, one Yugoslav said that the best thing about leaving Albania was that he would "no longer see armed soldiers carting away hundreds of prisoners in the mornings, and no longer hear...
...symbolic golden stool in return. More substantial largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little country, Tito offered a $3,000,000 loan for local projects, including a new slaughterhouse and cold-storage plant...
Bold Enough. Gratefully, King Hassan organized a big hunting party near Rabat, took the Yugoslav leader for a ride on one of his new superslick yellow-and-red diesel trains, just delivered from France, as thousands of Moroccans cheered. Then Tito steamed off for six days of talks with President Habib Bourguiba in Tunis and with the Algerian F.L.N. rebel leaders. Urging negotiations with France, Tito told F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas: "You must be bold enough to know when to call...