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...moment for which all Yugoslavs, as well as many foreign political leaders, had been preparing for weeks. On Sunday, Belgrade's official news agency, Tanjug, announced the death of Josip Broz Tito, 87, Yugoslavia's President-for-Life and Supreme Chairman of the Yugoslav League of Communists. In accordance with a succession plan that Tito had arranged and approved, his titles devolved automatically on two little-known party functionaries who had been carrying out his duties since January: Party Chairman Stevan Doronjski and President Lazar Kolisevski...
...became an organizer for the illegal Yugoslav Communist Party. Arrested and brought to trial in 1928, he defiantly admitted his Communist activities and was still shouting "Long live the Communist Party of Yugoslavia!" as he was led away to serve a five-year prison sentence. He did more organizing work for the party after his release, traveling about Europe with forged credentials. In the mid-'30s he began using the alias "Tito," a common name in his home district. (It was one of many pseudonyms: in correspondence with Moscow, he was always "Valter," and it was by that name...
...return there in 1937, when Stalin's bloodthirsty purges were at their height. This may have saved his life. He later said: "When I went to Moscow, I never knew whether I would come back alive." In 1939 the Comintern confirmed him as general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died yesterday after developing new heart trouble. He was 87 years...
...both Afghanistan and Iran. For another, Paris will be the site this week for a kind of pro-Soviet gala: a conference of European Communist parties designed to rally around Moscow's denunciation of NATO'S proposed new generation of nuclear missiles. Four major parties-the Yugoslav, Rumanian, Italian and Spanish -pointedly refused to attend, but Moscow appeared not to care. Its main purpose, according to French Pundit Pierre Hassner: "To force the parties to choose sides, to stand up and be counted...