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...several hours one day last month, gunfire echoed through the densely wooded hills near the Bosnian town of Bugojno. At first, Yugoslav officials explained away the sounds of battle as an army training exercise. Then, as rumors began to fly, the Belgrade government admitted that its troops had fought off an invasion of sorts...
About 50 young Croat emigres had established a base in the highlands of central Yugoslavia and there fought a fierce battle against government forces. Last week Yugoslav infantry and militia were still searching for remnants of the raiding party, and President Josip Broz Tito called his closest advisers to his retreat on the Adriatic island of Brioni for an emergency meeting...
Instead of being welcomed as liberators, they were met by apathy or open hostility. They were also greeted by security police, civil guardsmen and soldiers stationed at one of Tito's heavily guarded hunting lodges a few miles away. Yugoslav authorities claim they "broke up and destroyed" the Ustaše unit, killing a dozen of the attackers and wounding another dozen. One Yugoslav officer and nine soldiers were killed, and half of the raiders escaped into the mountains. The age of the invaders -most were in their early 20s and had emigrated only in the past year...
Tavern Stops. In Italy alone, 26 carabinieri have been killed in the past 18 months; three were blown to bits two weeks ago when they investigated an abandoned and booby-trapped automobile near the Yugoslav border. In Milan last week bombs were set off at the offices of four U.S. companies in protest against "American imperialism." A group called the Red Brigade was suspected. Three Italians, dressed unaccountably in World War II German uniforms, were arrested in northern Italy carrying eleven pounds of explosives; they had stopped frequently at taverns along the road they were traveling and had managed...
...years he was reviled as an archtraitor of Communism, the heretic who destroyed the unity of the Marxist faith. But last week, in a dramatic culmination of a historic reversal of Soviet policy, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito was treated to a hero's welcome in Moscow. At a state dinner in Tito's honor, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev did not even allude to the earlier disagreements that led to the 1948 break between Stalin and Tito. Instead, Brezhnev praised Tito for "your friendly attitude toward our country." In perhaps the most ironic turnabout of all, Tito...