Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout Yugoslavia, factories are bursting into flames at a rate described by Zagreb's weekly Vijesnik u Srijedu as "a fire and a half a day." Asked Bel grade radio last week: "Are we going to see our entire industry disappear in billows of smoke...
Billy Graham has preached before more than 170,000 listeners at a time (in Rio de Janeiro). But last week he described a rally of fewer than 3,000 as "the greatest meeting of my entire ministry." The gathering took place in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and was the high point of Billy's first preaching venture in a Communist country...
...Zagreb, headquarters for his crusade, he was greeted by church officials with gifts of bread and salt-a Yugoslav symbol of welcome-and quickly became known as "Gospodin Billy (Mister Billy)." In pouring rain, at a soccer field owned by a local Roman Catholic seminary (the government barred Graham from conducting his crusade in a public stadium), he spoke through a translator to a huddled crowd that represented more than one-tenth of Yugoslavia's 20,000 Protestants. A sodden banner proclaimed in Serbo-Croatian, "Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the life." Graham skirted politics...
Mihajlov, who has been ousted from his post as a lecturer in Russian literature at the Zadar branch of Zagreb University, represents a younger generation of intellectuals. Unlike Djilas, they have never had strong ties to the party and believe that it is too flabby to carry out reforms pledged by Tito. Mihajlov was convicted twice before, once for an anti-Soviet article, "Moscow Summer 1964," which was published in both Yugoslavia and the U.S. The reason for his latest trial is the publication abroad of two of his articles and a letter in which he outlined a plan...
...Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting plans for hotels in Victoria Falls and Lusaka in Zambia, and Nairobi, Kenya. Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade, and emissaries are dickering with Hungarian Communists about helping to run a hotel in Budapest...