Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blossomed with red-draped pictures of him, nestling among West German cameras and British textiles, and when 60,000 people gathered at twilight in Belgrade for a fete climaxed by the presentation to Tito of a silver-plated baton that had been relayed for a month through hundreds of Yugoslav towns and villages. The other holiday was May 1, Communism's traditional red-letter day, when there were no military marches in the Yugoslav capital, and Tito wasn't even in town...
Nazarene & Catholic. The London headquarters gives an added boost to the efforts of local groups by choosing three particularly deserving individuals as "Prisoners of the Month." One of the March trio is Miligojae Phillipovic, a 21-year-old Yugoslav serving a ten-year term on the penal island of Goli Otok in the Adriatic; as a member of the Nazarene sect he refuses to report for military service and handle objects intended for killing. There is also a "Prisoner of the Year." The 1966 selection is Koumandian Keita, a Guinean headmaster sentenced to ten years for criticizing President Sekou Toure...
...youth feel a sense of utter pessimism, a rejection of any kind of political commitment," complains one Communist elder. "They doubt the meaning of positive effort. Their only real interest is sex." Youthful Yugoslav Author Mihajlo Mihajlov recently wrote President Tito that any fears that reading Western literature could "infect" Mihajlov with a "foreign ideology" are unfounded. His proof: "I have been reading Communist literature since childhood, and I still fail to find any sympathy for Communism...
...laden as any in "Little Italy"). A bow to the West takes in mamaliga-cornmeal porridge that resembles Russian kasha-which is often accompanied by sarmale, stuffed cabbage Hungarian-style. Unlike most Latins, Rumanians are not great winebibbers. Their national drink, tuicā, is as clear and catastrophic as Yugoslav slivovitz...
...sleek, twin-stacked Yugoslav cruise ships floated at anchor in Tripoli harbor last week, set up as dockside hotels for all comers. Tripoli's landlocked hotels are booked solid for the next three months, and taxicab drivers are taking advantage of the crush of visitors to charge exorbitant sums for short hops around town. On the edge of town, workmen are hammering the last exhibits together for the 30 countries that will be represented at the annual Tripoli International Fair, which opens next week and will attract a record influx of visitors...