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...failure to achieve his original aims, Brezhnev deftly shifted emphasis to a display of Soviet reasonableness. He assured his listeners that the U.S.S.R. had no wish to reinstitute a Communist "organizational center" or Cominform-which would be impossible in any case. This was apparently a conciliatory gesture to Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 84, who participated in an international Communist conference for the first time since 1948, when the Kremlin-dominated Cominform expelled...
...could do what we wanted." But when the Soviets deposed Dub?ek, Koco began planning an escape for himself, his wife Agnes and their two sons, then four and one. A series of devious moves, by way of Belgrade, finally brought them to the dark hills near the Austro-Yugoslav frontier. Leading his elder son by the hand while Agnes followed with the baby, Koco trudged through the night. "Once we heard voices and we hid in a ditch," Koco recalls. "We knew that the local people sometimes turned in refugees for the reward. We stumbled along for hours. Once...
Adam B. Ulam, who is also professor of Government, said that although the Yugoslav government of Marshall Tito has been one of the most independent among Communist countries its foreign policy is "very close to the Soviet line...
...battered villages did have the minor good fortune to lie in a military garrison zone, next to the Yugoslav border, where some 32,000 soldiers were quickly mustered for rescue duty. Shortly before 5 a.m., as first light began to break, Italian and U.S. helicopters joined forces to fly out the injured. At week's end, as strong new tremors hit the area, the rescuers were still hauling corpses out of the rubble and the death toll seemed certain to go much higher...
After a decisive five-day military blitz, the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) last week triumphantly announced that it had won the seven-month-old Angolan civil war. In a Luanda interview with the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, President Agostinho Neto held out an olive branch to former members of the two Western-backed opposition forces, the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). They would have "no problem" under his government, he insisted. But he offered virtually no hope for a conciliatory...