Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windows of the modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...
...left leg on Jan. 20, to relieve a circulation blockage, the formidable 87-year-old patient at first appeared to be recovering strongly. Three weeks later, however, he suffered a severe relapse, with kidney failure and heart problems. Last week the terse bulletins issued by his team of eight Yugoslav doctors said his condition "continues to be grave," in spite of some response to "necessary measures of intensive treatment." Those measures included kidney dialysis. Then late in the week, he contracted pneumonia...
...borders. At the same time, a flotilla of five Soviet warships was spotted steaming through the Sea of Japan, apparently on its way to reinforce the Soviet fleet contingent in the Indian Ocean. No less worrisome were the medical bulletins from Belgrade, reporting on the rapidly deteriorating health of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 87. Without Tito, who broke with the Kremlin in 1948, Yugoslavia might fall prey to internal conflicts that could inspire another Soviet intervention. This very specter seemed to rise last week with reports of troop movements inside the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe...
...invasion came, observers expect that the Yugoslavs could and would put up a bitter fight. When the Soviets led the Warsaw Pact forces into Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Yugoslav government as a precaution began training civilians in guerrilla tactics. Some civilian groups in their zeal to protect their country even offered to help pay for arms purchased for their units from Western Europe. There
...consumed in the U.S.). The busy brothers Ernest and Julio have been growing varietal grapes, and paying their outside suppliers to plant them, since the early '60s, and have built an underground cellar the size of two football fields to age their wines in casks of French and Yugoslav oak. While they are the General Motors of American wine, in the tastings they enter the Gallos consistently win the kind of awards that go to Ferraris. Indeed, few California vintners of any size work so hard on the all-important process of vinification, the actual making of the wine...