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Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling that reached a climax last fall when 30,000 students went on strike in Zagreb. Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists demanded their own army and airline, and separate membership...
...punishment in any Communist country, and another 1,000 reprimanded or demoted. Last month, the chastened Croatian League of Communists expelled the former chairman of its central committee, Dr. Savka Dabcevic-Kúcar, and Croatia's former representative on the federal collective presidency in Belgrade, MikoTripalo. A district court in Zagreb is preparing to prosecute 44 student leaders and eleven prominent Croatian intellectuals later this summer...
...explosion shook the plane. The bomb-stricken DC-9 fell from the skies and crashed near the Bohemian town of Česká Kamenice, killing all but one of the 28 people aboard. A few hours later, another bomb went off on the Ljubljana-to-Belgrade express outside Zagreb, injuring six passengers...
...wake of the student strike in Zagreb last November, which led to Tito's subsequent crackdown in Croatia, Yugoslav officials claim that the eleven accused ringleaders of the alleged conspiracy were plotting a full-scale general strike as a prelude to an uprising in support of Croatian independence. Meanwhile, some 400 Communist officials, including Tripalo and Dabčevič-Kučar, have been purged from their posts, and more firings may follow. The trials of the conspirators will probably begin in March...
...four nights last week, students rioted in the Croatian city of Zagreb. The demonstrations, which left 400 students under arrest, were one of the worst outbreaks of civil disorder in Yugoslavia since the Communists took control more than 26 years ago. What brought on the violence was a long-simmering dispute between the 4,300,000 fiery-tempered Croats, who form the second-largest and politically most troublesome of Yugoslavia's six republics, and their ancient enemies the Serbs, who have traditionally dominated the central government in Belgrade...