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...week long banner headlines told of the ferocious battles. Yugoslav television carried filmed reports of the fighting and a somber briefing by a major general on each day's action. One big Zagreb daily put out a special battlefield edition for the troops...
Chalk Talk. Will the plan work? The war games began with enemy air attacks on towns in a large area southwest of Zagreb. Enemy tanks sliced southward from the direction of Hungary, the scene of recent Warsaw Pact maneuvers and an obvious route for possible Soviet invaders...
Last fall, the aging Tito faced up to the fact that something would have to be done soon. "We have entered a stage now where we have no time," he told a party meeting in Zagreb. "Time works not for us, but against us." To solve the problem of the succession, he proposed the creation of a collective presidency made up of two or three leaders elected by the assemblies of each republic and one or two by each province. Ironically, the national debate over Tito's proposals merely brought the country's separatist tendencies into the open...
...World War II. "These old bureaucrats are fighting a rear-guard action against the economic reforms. They made the Revolution in the 1940's, and have been afraid of any changes ever since. They expect us to behave like the passive Soviet youth!" said one discontented youth in Zagreb...
...Eastern Europe, ideology was cast aside. Russia's Luna 15 was virtually ignored, and Yugoslavia's Radio Zagreb pointedly emphasized the contrast between American candor and Soviet secrecy concerning space flights. Czechoslovakia issued special commemorative stamps, and a Hungarian television commentator talked of "amazing tasks" during the moon walk. Poles unveiled a soaring statue at the Cracow sports stadium in honor of Apollo's astronauts. Said Radio Warsaw: "Let them come back happily. Their defeat would be the defeat of all mankind...