Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tito may never hear that message. For the past two months, he has been wavering between life and death at the Ljubljana Clinical Center in Slovenia, where he underwent amputation of his left leg on Jan. 20. Now semicomatose, he is stricken with a formidable array of ailments: kidney failure, heart trouble, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Yugoslav officials have given Tito up for dead on at least two occasions. Yet the tough old Resistance fighter has continued to defy long medical odds. His tenacity has far surpassed even that of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco...