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...Shall Overcome." Meanwhile, there was a groundswell of sympathy for Elazar, who has been something of a war hero ever since he took the Golan Heights in a mere 15 hours in the 1967 war. The Yugoslav-born general, 48, signed off all calls to his home with: "Thanks for calling, I shall overcome." One offer he was reportedly considering was the managing directorship of the Zim Navigation Co., Israel's flag-carrier shipping line...
Sadat called for preliminary planning after initial Egyptian victories in the October war, and Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will...
...young hobbyists had almost completed their project when a Yugoslav civilian spotted them standing in the bushes outside a busy military airfield at Mostar, looking at the planes with binoculars. He called the police, who promptly arrested them and charged them with espionage. Curtis and Mason, police said, also had in their possession a large telescope, a shortwave radio capable of monitoring aircraft communications and a tape recorder. They also had several notebooks full of data about Yugoslavia's airfields, which were being used by Soviet planes to fly supplies to Syria and Egypt during the Middle East...
Denying that there had been anything sinister about their activity, the two Britons insisted that they were innocently plane-spotting. "It's just a hobby, like collecting stamps or old coins," said Mason at his trial in Sarajevo last week. The Yugoslav judges were not persuaded. They found the two young Britons guilty of spying and sentenced them each to four years in prison...
...Yugoslavia and Cuba succeed in achieving independence? Why didn't their respective patrons suppress their independence movements, as they did in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Chile? Certainly the Yugoslavs and the Cubans were brave, certainly their leaders were astute. But Hungary and Guatemala had their heroes too, and Dubcek and Allende were certainly remarkable politicians. Answers based on countries' different political situations are bound to seem unpleasant, for they discourage belief in the imminent self-rule of all peoples in all situations; and with just two cases to go on, they're bound to be inaccurate as well...