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...previously spent 28 years in prisons and camps-in prewar Poland for being a Communist, under Nazi occupation for the same reason, and under the Soviet government for "Ukrainian nationalism." After his release in 1967, Shumuk wrote his memoirs of prison life and apparently circulated the work of Yugoslav Writer Milovan Djilas (The New Class), for which he has been sentenced to an additional 15 years. His wife has also been arrested and his two-year-old son placed in an orphanage...
While the 727 circled the Yugoslav airport, the skyjackers broadcast a new demand-that the three prisoners be flown to Zagreb and released there. Meanwhile the Germans had worked out a set of conditions. If possible, they wanted the skyjackers arrested "without endangering the passengers and crew" of the jet. If that was not feasible, they told Yugoslav officials, the three prisoners were to be exchanged for the hostages. But if the skyjackers would not agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann...
...Yugoslav Communist Party is once again in the grip of a wide-scale political purge. In a series of laconic announcements last week, the Yugoslav press agency Tanyug reported the "resignations" of top-ranking Serbian and Slovene officials. In fact, they had been dismissed from office by President Josip Broz Tito, who had moved to put down nationalist strife within the supposedly supranationalist party he has led since...
Straying Parties. Still iron-willed at 80, Tito seemed more determined than ever to prevent any division of Yugoslavia into separate states after his death. Such a prospect has always haunted him, and with reason. Five major national groups compose the fragile fabric of Yugoslav unity: the fiercely independent Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians. Twenty years ago Tito granted a measure of autonomy to the Communist parties that rule Yugoslavia's six republics. But such decentralization served to encourage separatist aspirations. As a result, Tito decided to centralize and discipline the straying parties. Since last December, when Tito...
...other features of free enterprise with state ownership of industry, is foundering because of inefficiency and mismanagement. Massive imports of Western technology and consumer goods have not been matched by American or European investment. As a result, Yugoslavia is becoming more dependent on Soviet capital. Eight hundred thousand Yugoslavs have sought jobs in Western Europe, and many virtually bankrupt Yugoslav companies are unable to meet their payrolls. In spite of displays of consumer goods in stores, soaring inflation has put them increasingly out of reach for ordinary workers...