Word: yugoslavic
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...worked his way up to Fleet Street by 1948, when he moved to Canada. The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman. Then he joined the Star. In 1949 his first self-invented foreign assignment took him to Yugoslavia to check up on 3,000 Yugoslav immigrants who had left Canada for Tito's Marxist paradise and wanted to get out again. Stevenson's stories of their misery produced official Canadian protests to Belgrade, which refused him a visa renewal but let the Yugo-Canadians...
...talked about Germany's "two sovereign states," Bonn feared he was about to recognize the puppet East German regime. Despite private assurances that Tito would not do so, the Adenauer government last week pointedly allowed West Germany's Bundestag to adjourn for the summer without ratifying the Yugoslav treaty. "Blackmail," cried Yugoslavia's Politika, but West Germany is prepared to wait until Tito's assurances sound as loud and clear as his original remarks in Moscow's Dynamo Stadium...
...friendly hug of the Russian bear almost squeezed the breath of independence out of Yugoslav President Tito last week...
Subtly but surely, the Russians were boxing him in. Bulganin had begun the boxing process early in the trip, when he said in Leningrad: "I'm sure our friendship will endure. Nothing and nobody can disturb these relations, and in the Soviet people and in the Yugoslav people there's sufficient force to chop off the hand of anyone who dares...
After the round of handshaking and back-slapping that followed, Tito presented Marshal Zhukov with the Yugoslav Order of Freedom-the first non-Yugoslav ever so honored...