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Next to out-finesse the Soviets were the Yugoslavs, who humbled them in overtime, 101-91. "The Russians can't handle the pressure," gloated Yugoslav Center Kresimir Cosic, 31, who starred at Brigham Young University in the early '70s. "They panic when it gets tough...
Coach Ranko Zeravica threw down the gauntlet after his Yugoslav deadeyes trounced Italy, 86-77, for the gold medal. Said he: "The question of who is best-the Yugoslavs or the U.S.-is being disputed, so we must meet and find out." But the U.S. Amateur Basketball Association said a showdown was not likely. Admitted Cosic: "We play better against the Russians. The Americans-they kill...
...social stratification that exists in the Soviet Union obviously conflicts with the ideal of equality, which Marx called "the groundwork of Communism." Such an inconsistency was denounced by Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas in his 1957 classic The New Class, and elitism ranks high among the ideological sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument...
...much of Carter's foreign policy continues to stupefy the world. The bungles are endless--from the buck-passing and double-dealing following the vote in the U.N. Security Council on Israel's West Bank settlements to the recent diplomatic faux pas of the president's absence at Yugoslav leader Josip Tito's funeral. One reason for the perpetual inconsistency of Carter's diplomacy, of course, is his stage-fright: every move on the international stage is selected to please the audience of American voters, not to further a coherent foreign policy. It is precisely Carter's failure to solve...
...fund a regional pollution monitoring system that included 84 laboratories to document conditions in the waters. The labs turned up some hopeful signs: the absorption capacity of the Mediterranean proved to be greater than many experts had imagined, and pollution levels were not uniformly critical. Concluded Stjepan Keckes, the Yugoslav marine scientist who headed the U.N. team: "The Mediterranean is sick, but it is not dead and it is not even dying...