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...second time in four months, demonstrators in Yugoslavia have toppled regional leaders. After two days of giant street protests by as many as 100,000 workers and students in the city of Titograd last week, the entire state and Communist Party leadership of the Republic of Montenegro tendered its resignation. The people responded by dancing in the streets, chanting, "Montenegro has risen" and "Down with armchair politicians...
...party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals with West European firms to obtain factory and telecommunications equipment, as well as diesel trucks...
While trade and industrial output have increased on the whole, construction has slowed down. A recently built model city, Titograd, in Montenegro stands half-finished and deserted. The ugly, square, cement hotel, a huge department store, administration buildings are surrounded by open spaces and ruins of the old town. Another mark of prestige, the excellent cement highway between Belgrade and Zagreb conveys more hay-wagons than cars...
Word from King Zog. Since 1948, about 500 Albanians have escaped into Yugoslavia, many of whom have found haven in Titograd, the new provincial capital the Montenegrins are building on the ruins of Podgorica, which was razed by British bombers in World War II. Sipping thick Turkish coffee in a Titograd café last week, one of the refugees, a country storekeeper, said: "Police came to me and demanded 2,000,000 lek [$4,000]. I told him I didn't have it. They sent me to jail in Scutari. They chained my arms together underneath my knees...
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