Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missing as the Yugoslav Central Committee met last week in Belgrade's ornate, 19th century Parliament Hall. For the first time since World War II, President Josip Broz Tito was not present to call the tune. He was relaxing at his island hideaway of Brioni, fully content to let his lieutenants transact what business there was. Tito's absence-and his confidence-were symbolic of the country's new relaxation. Yugoslav Communism is evolving toward a less dictatorial-if still far from democratic-form of government...
...reactionary lieutenant, Aleksandar ("Marko") Ran-kovic, and released from 41 years in prison his archcritic, liberal Author Milovan Djilas. In the first such defiance in a Communist state, Slovenian party members bucked their boss, State President Janko Smole, over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important, Tito declared an end to party "commandism" and declared that Communists must henceforth chart Yugoslavia's course by the force of their arguments and ideology...
Refulgent Resorts. Tito has begun 1967 just as spectacularly. On Jan. 1, Yugoslavia opened its borders to all foreigners, becoming the first Communist country to abolish visas. At the same time, the 300,000 Yugoslavs (out of 20 million) who are employed outside the country, mostly in Western Europe, have no difficulty returning or departing. One good reason: they send home $70 million a year. To be sure, Tito still holds Author Mihajlo Mihajlov (Moscow Summer) in prison for attempting to establish an "opposition" political magazine, but many Western publications are now available in Yugoslavia. Much of Yugoslavia...
...often clashed in detail, they left little doubt that the height of the battle was approaching between Mao and his hand-picked heir, Marshal Lin Piao, on the one hand, and the more pragmatic and liberal Politburo faction headed by Chinese President Liu Shao-chi on the other. The Yugoslav news agency Tan-yug reported that Peking was "flooded with posters and cartoons of a sinister nature, depicting numerous Chinese leaders"-and not forgetting to include Lyndon Johnson, whose caricature was attacked by children bearing spears...
...compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to die of malnutrition, ruined the careers of two Yugoslav bureaucrats when he conned state funds out of them, welshed on everything from actors' salaries to florists' bills. Finally finished, the film was uneditable...