Word: yugoslavic
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That, plus the fact that he had been picked up crossing a bridge on the Yugoslav border, was all that the authorities knew or could guess about Janos. A fellow refugee, a draftsman from Budapest, had invented the name for him. A faint look of pleasure in Janos' eyes seemed to indicate that he could hear, and that he liked the name. The mystery of his real identity and origin remained...
Marshal Tito's government took a step toward making its money honest. It announced last week that the Yugoslav dinar, pegged at a phony rate of 50 to $1 while its free market value dropped as low as 700 to $1, was being devalued to a rate of 300 to $1. The cut came after two months of conference with a visiting mission of the 5O-nation International Monetary Fund, which advised Yugoslavia that its best chance of trading with the West would come from cleaning up its currency...
...devaluation was one more indication that Communist Marshal Tito, while still revering Das Kapital as a Bible, is not using it as his only economics textbook. The Tito regime has recently loosened the government's rigid control over the Yugoslav economy, putting many state-run enterprises on a profit & loss basis...
...reported itself over Zagreb about on schedule, but Yugoslav radio monitors later computed that it was actually over Varazdin, 40 miles away (see map) ; apparently the pilot had mistaken the Drava for the Sava...
When Hungarian Correspondent Tibor Merai spoke contemptuously to Levi about Tito, the Yugoslav retorted: "Where was [Hungarian Deputy Premier] Rakosi when our peoples were fighting for their liberation? In a hotel in Russia eating caviar, while Tito was fighting in the mountains." Sputtered Merai: "You call yourself a Communist...