Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dissident Yugoslav Writer Mihajlo Mihajlov, who is well known for his anti-Soviet views, was arrested last week for the fourth time in ten years. Ever since the 1965 publication of his scathingly critical travelogue, Moscow Summer, he has become used to playing a Kafkaesque role in his country's foreign policy. Whenever President Tito feels the need to placate the Kremlin publicly, he usually orders the arrest of Russia's least favorite Yugoslav...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
...problem is that the demarcation line is still not, technically speaking, a border. The current dispute began when signs on the Yugoslav side of the line were changed last January in such a way as to imply that Zone B was an integral part of the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia. Italians immediately protested that Yugoslavia was trying to establish permanent sovereignty over Zone...
Italian Premier Mario Rumor sent a note of protest to Belgrade, describing Zone B as "Italian territory." Marshal Tito's government responded by claiming that Zone B (and Zone A, too, if Rome really wanted to pursue the matter) was "Yugoslav territory." Yugoslav armor and troops went on maneuvers, and protests erupted in a number of Croat and Slovene border towns. More than 10,000 people crowded Tito Square in the Zone B town of Koper, some carrying signs reading, WHAT IS OURS WE DON'T GIVE...
Factory groups and partisan organizations sent telegrams to Belgrade vowing to sacrifice their lives in defense of "every inch of territory." Long lines of cars began to snake backward at the border crossings, as Yugoslav guards suddenly began punctilious examinations of every vehicle entering or leaving Zone B. After Italian and U.S. forces joined in NATO naval exercises off the Adriatic coast, Belgrade mustered its own armada in a countershow of force. Last week Tito lambasted both Italy and the U.S. for endangering the security of the area with their maneuvers...