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...within the society came to a head with the resignation of two important members of the group's national council: Classics Professor Revilo P. Oliver of the University of Illinois, a Birch theoretician with views far out even by the society's standards,* and Slobodan Draskovich, a Yugoslav émigré who heads a Chicago-based group called the Serbian Cultural Club. Oliver and Draskovich accused Welch of leading the society away from its basic aim of militantly combatting Communism into a purely educational role. "The fight has gone out of Mr. Welch and the John Birch Society...
...Soviet critic Abram Tertz. Last week with its September issue, the magazine was again on top of a literary cause célèbre. It printed the first English translation of the open letter written to Tito in July by Mihajlo Mihajlov. The letter politely explained why the Yugoslav writer felt that he must persist in his intention to found an "opposition newspaper." Four weeks after writing it, he was arrested (TIME...
...Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic...
Stoned Hooligans. Even so, many citizens seem unconvinced that they should keep their hands out of the state till. "People who steal private property are despised," said a Yugoslav radio commentator, "while embezzlers of public funds are admired and looked up to. They are asked how much they got and how they did it." He concluded dolefully: "This is not a proper attitude." A Pole commented: "Stealing from the state is like cheating customs. Everybody does...
...less what these various deviations and anomalies were. It seems to me that we made a mistake at that time not to have gone to the end. We stopped halfway owing to certain tendencies toward compromise." By purging Ranković, Tito finally moved beyond the halfway house in reforming Yugoslav Communism...