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...blossomed with red-draped pictures of him, nestling among West German cameras and British textiles, and when 60,000 people gathered at twilight in Belgrade for a fete climaxed by the presentation to Tito of a silver-plated baton that had been relayed for a month through hundreds of Yugoslav towns and villages. The other holiday was May 1, Communism's traditional red-letter day, when there were no military marches in the Yugoslav capital, and Tito wasn't even in town...
Many went on wheels, for Yugoslavs have gone car crazy as the number of privately owned autos has tripled in five years. A mounting tide of wheeled Westerners is adding to the crush. They flow in to sample Yugoslavia's sylvan beaches and well-preserved medieval towns. Some 3,000,000 Western cars carrying tourists are expected this year. "I stamp passports in my sleep these days," says one Yugoslav border guard at a Trieste checkpoint. "One day last summer we had 45,000 people come through here...
Such hardheaded business-before-dogma characterizes Tito's attitude toward nearly all the problems of the Yugoslav economy. Alone among Red peoples, Yugoslavs may freely travel to the West. Many do, and stay to work, but they send $60 million back home each year. Nearly 87% of the land in Yugoslavia is still privately farmed. "We exported grain last year," shrugs a Belgrade official. "How many other socialist countries export grain?" The government is in the process of handing over more and more independence to local factory management. "Within five years," says a Belgrade economist, "our factory managers will...
...those "who have worked in a way contrary to the implementation of reform." The old-liners are under pressure from a different direction: Tito is encouraging the 8,000,000-member Socialist Alliance, once a rubber-stamp popular front, to stand in local elections against his ruling League of Yugoslav Communists Party. Though still under the League's wing, the Alliance will force League candidates to "openly debate issues," make it more difficult for the old-liners to hide in the woodwork of the bureaucracy. Tito's move has led some Belgrade wags to suggest that Yugoslavia...
Nazarene & Catholic. The London headquarters gives an added boost to the efforts of local groups by choosing three particularly deserving individuals as "Prisoners of the Month." One of the March trio is Miligojae Phillipovic, a 21-year-old Yugoslav serving a ten-year term on the penal island of Goli Otok in the Adriatic; as a member of the Nazarene sect he refuses to report for military service and handle objects intended for killing. There is also a "Prisoner of the Year." The 1966 selection is Koumandian Keita, a Guinean headmaster sentenced to ten years for criticizing President Sekou Toure...