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...independent," he authorized the Government to continue economic aid but ordered the heavy military equipment to be withheld "until the situation can be more accurately appraised." The reappraisal was completed last week. The events of last winter, announced the State Department, have confirmed the President's finding of Yugoslav independence. Among the events: the Russian intervention in Hungary that brought the Moscow-Belgrade honeymoon to an end and has been followed by "renewed Soviet harassment of Yugoslavia." Result: the U.S., with Ike's approval, will send its shipments of heavy equipment to help Tito defend himself-but deliveries...
...uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages, sung by the Yugoslav Army Chorus...
What had happened was only discovered later: in the big split between Tito and Stalin that year, General Markos had stubbornly continued to use both Yugoslav and Bulgarian bases, i.e., refused to take sides. Result: Greek Communist Boss Nicholas Zachariades charged him with "Trotskyite opportunistic behavior" and bounced him out of the party as a "fainthearted deserter from the popular democratic movement." Top Yugoslav sources guessed that Markos' illness was really a small round hole in the head...
...treason: an article in New York's Socialist New Leader calling the revolution in Hungary "the beginning of the end of Communism generally" (TIME, Dec. 24). Sentenced to three years' hard labor, Djilas, 46 and in good health, had every prospect of surviving his sentence, re-entering Yugoslav politics and even in time becoming one of the challengers for the mantle of the 64-year-old Tito. Since his arrest Djilas' following has grown. Yugoslav peasants, confronted with rising prices, have been heard saying: "Djilas was right." But last week it was learned that the hands...
Foreign friends, fearing rheumatoid arthritis, began to organize a petition to Tito (sunbathing by the Adriatic) for an easing of Djilas' sentence. Yet such are the political advantages of being in Mitrovica, by this time a tradition in Yugoslav government, that Djilas himself, a firm believer in the historical process, was reported quite cheerful about his miserable condition, saying: "It proves to the Yugoslav people that I am not a Communist...