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...Voice correspondent, Lawrence Freund, preparing a story on the trial of a group of Croatians accused of separatism, noted that Yugoslav security was being stepped up around President Tito's residence in Belgrade. USIA killed the story as "too sensitive" because it fostered the impression of political instability. Instead, VGA broadcast a toned-down story from the wire services...
This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
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...
Bourgeois Press. The movement would probably have been dismissed as just another anti-Tito cadre had there not been evidence of complicity by the Soviet Union and two other Warsaw Pact countries-Hungary and Czechoslovakia. According to Yugoslav Communist sources, the reams of anti-Tito propaganda had reportedly been printed in Hungary and smuggled into Yugoslavia. Official notes of protest were sent to the three governments, and all three issued predictable denials of any involvement in the affair...
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...