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...unexpected summons. The usually aloof Chinese Foreign Ministry had invited Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, 47, for a chat. Over Indian tea, the woman in charge of the press section recited some Mao-thoughts. Then she got down to business. Bogunovic had to leave the country for writing "distorted and slanderous stories about the Chinese Cultural Revolution." After filing 2,500 stories from Peking since 1957, Bogunovic hastily collected his wife and boarded a train for the Soviet Union...
...while, prospects of a U.S. victory at Wimbledon looked reasonably bright-especially after Australia's Roy Emerson, the No. 2 seed, was beaten by an unseeded Yugoslav. But by week's end both Riessen and Richey had been eliminated, and Pasarell was the only American left. Finally, in the quarterfinals, Charlito also came a cropper, losing to Brazil's Thomas Koch, in five tough sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-8. At least the mercurial Puerto Rican had given the U.S., at a time when its tennis fortunes were down, a few shining...
...Communist Yugoslavia. Tito's most stubborn foe, Milovan Djilas, 56, who has been freed after a total of almost nine years in prison, vows to go on writing. "If I cannot speak," he says, "what good is it to be out of prison?" The editors of the Yugoslav magazine Praxis, which stopped publishing eight months ago when Tito angrily denounced its cries for reform, have just come out with a new issue that is no less defiant than before. About the least penitent of all the authors punished by Tito is Mihajlo Mihajlov, 33, who last week...
...single man is head of state and at the same time head of the army and the party, then look in the encyclopaedia and you will find that that is totalitarianism." In fact, he added brazenly, the one-party monopoly of government, which is nowhere mentioned in the Yugoslav constitution, is far more illegal than his own writings. "My ideas are socialist and democratic," he said, "but a small handful of people, some 6%, are outside the law and monopolize society. The paradoxical fact is that Marxist ideas are far more alive today in the West than here...
...recreation, entertainment, and the like). In terms of the political socialization process in the communist countries, the persistence of youth and student attitudes other than those of the "young enthusiasts" in the first group mentioned above can be considered a setback to the regime. This forthright recognition by the Yugoslavs of the fact that the majority of their students do not measure up to the "ideal" is in itself a commentary on the changing nature of the Yugoslav regime...