Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stoned Hooligans. Even so, many citizens seem unconvinced that they should keep their hands out of the state till. "People who steal private property are despised," said a Yugoslav radio commentator, "while embezzlers of public funds are admired and looked up to. They are asked how much they got and how they did it." He concluded dolefully: "This is not a proper attitude." A Pole commented: "Stealing from the state is like cheating customs. Everybody does...
...news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying...
...less what these various deviations and anomalies were. It seems to me that we made a mistake at that time not to have gone to the end. We stopped halfway owing to certain tendencies toward compromise." By purging Ranković, Tito finally moved beyond the halfway house in reforming Yugoslav Communism...
...years in the making, the Yugoslav protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...Padre Agostino." Some Vatican conservatives contend that Casaroli is too soft as a negotiator, concedes too much to the other side. The Yugoslav agreement, for instance, refers to "terrorism and analogous forms of political violence" that were allegedly committed by Catholic priests during World War II in Yugoslavia. Casaroli readily admits that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that...