Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Marion, former Yugoslav Olympic champion, yesterday said he believed his team would have little trouble in defeating the usually-weak B.U. fencers...
...year ago Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey-long traditional enemies-signed a treaty pledging themselves to unite in common defense against aggression. The treaty did not state who was to protect each of the partners from the other two. Last week Yugoslav George Katradjieff stood trial before a Greek court-martial, accused of collecting Greek military intelligence for Yugoslavia. Verdict: guilty...
...President, the members last week unanimously elected Mosa Pijade, 64, a gnomelike little man whose friendly, avuncular air (covering the steely core of a seasoned revolutionist) has earned him the nickname Cica (uncle). He joined the Communist Party in 1920, founded the newspaper Borba, which remains the mouthpiece of Yugoslav Communism today. Most of the years between World Wars I and II he spent in jail, continuing there to plot, teach and organize (Tito was one of his pupils). Mosa Pijade was on Tito's military staff in the struggle against Hitler, was elected a Politburo member last year...
More Democracy. No one save Tito was more popular in Yugoslavia than Vice President Djilas (pronounced jee-las). In actual rank he stood No. 3, if not No. 2, behind the dictator. A bright, tough product of the classic Yugoslav Red school (law studies, school riots, strikes, underground, jail, partisan warfare), he fought bravely with Tito in World War II. His father, two brothers and two sisters were killed by Axis troops. Only last month he was elected President of the Parliament. He was one of the few authorized to speak out on matters of party policy and dialectic...
...rudeness toward a pretty young actress named Milena Vranjak, who recently married Djilas' friend and fellow Montenegrin, Colonel General Peko Dapcevic (TIME, Jan. 18). But more basic was a series of articles he published in Borba, the official party daily, criticizing the theories and techniques of the Yugoslav party. He attacked bureaucracy, implied that it was "enslaving" the country's productive forces, poked fun at cell meetings and urged that they be opened to non-Communists as well as Communists. "When a revolution has been successful," wrote Djilas, "the next logical step is a turn toward democracy . . . There...