Word: yugoslavs
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...missing as the Yugoslav Central Committee met last week in Belgrade's ornate, 19th century Parliament Hall. For the first time since World War II, President Josip Broz Tito was not present to call the tune. He was relaxing at his island hideaway of Brioni, fully content to let his lieutenants transact what business there was. Tito's absence-and his confidence-were symbolic of the country's new relaxation. Yugoslav Communism is evolving toward a less dictatorial-if still far from democratic-form of government...
...named for Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Findley, who managed to attach to the 1966 Agricultural Appropriation Act a rider forbidding the subsidized shipment of U.S. food to "any nation that sells or furnishes any equipment, materials or commodifies" to North Viet Nam. As it happens, the Yugoslavs have been sending Hanoi blood, bandages and other medical supplies. Though the State Department has contended that the Findley Amendment does not apply in this case, insisting that the supplies have been sent by private Yugoslav citizens rather than by the government, the amendment takes little notice of such niceties...
...often clashed in detail, they left little doubt that the height of the battle was approaching between Mao and his hand-picked heir, Marshal Lin Piao, on the one hand, and the more pragmatic and liberal Politburo faction headed by Chinese President Liu Shao-chi on the other. The Yugoslav news agency Tan-yug reported that Peking was "flooded with posters and cartoons of a sinister nature, depicting numerous Chinese leaders"-and not forgetting to include Lyndon Johnson, whose caricature was attacked by children bearing spears...
...compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to die of malnutrition, ruined the careers of two Yugoslav bureaucrats when he conned state funds out of them, welshed on everything from actors' salaries to florists' bills. Finally finished, the film was uneditable...
Djilas' pardon was part of a new forgive-and-forget policy that the Yugoslav President suddenly seems to be favoring. Last month Tito also pardoned another former Vice President, Aleksandar Ranković, who, as the country's security chief, had not only plotted an anti-Tito conspiracy, but actually went so far as to bug Tito's home and office...