Word: yugoslavs
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...Americans narrowed the Yugoslav lead to 6-5 before Chuck Ness of the U.S. scored the final, tying goal with five minutes left in the game...
...first ambassadorial post, was nicked in the leg by a bullet and Belgian Chargé d'Affaires Guy Bid was hit in the foot. They, along with others, were forced back into the embassy. Once they got inside, the terrorists rounded up more diplomats, including the Hungarian and Yugoslav envoys who unsuccessfully tried to hide in the roof garden...
...regime has been pressing an anti-Western campaign on various levels-some frivolous. Peyton Place, charged with having a "petit bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month. The movie Patton was abruptly banished from Belgrade theaters last week for "glorifying the U.S. army of aggression." Yugoslav youths who used to wear G.I. fatigues and U.S. Army insignia are now being urged to switch to "the Partisan look" -belted tunics styled after the uniforms worn by Tito's World War II guerrillas...
...Yugoslav leaders have accused the CIA of trying to take advantage of upheavals. The army, which has 650 U.S.-made Sherman tanks and some aging American jet fighters in its inventory, is plainly geared to fight off a Czechoslovakia-style invasion from the East...
...seems once again to be responding to economic necessity-and a genuine conviction that Yugoslavia's reforms went too far. Partly because of mismanagement and corruption, Yugoslavia's hybrid market socialism has faltered. In 1971, as inflation spiraled upward at 15% despite two devaluations of the dinar, Yugoslav firms sank into the red, unable to meet payrolls, fill orders or attract vitally needed capital from the West. The result was that although Yugoslavia continued to depend on the West for considerable aid and the bulk of its trade, Belgrade had no choice but to rely more on Moscow...