Word: bosnia-herzegovina
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Died. Dzemal Bijedic, 60, Premier of Yugoslavia; in a plane crash; near Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The son of Moslem shopkeepers, Bijedic joined the Communist Youth Movement and in World War II fought the Nazis as a member of Tito's Partisans. He became a politician in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was appointed Prime Minister by President Tito...
...immediate sign that Moscow is planning an invasion. Moreover, while the Czechoslovaks declared in advance that they would not resist a Warsaw Pact invasion, the Yugoslavs have made it clear that they would fight. They have scheduled autumn maneuvers of their own in the rugged mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The war games, the biggest since 1945, will stress cooperation between newly organized guerrilla bands and the regular army. The Yugoslavs are especially anxious about the possibility of a new outbreak of fighting in the Middle East. They fear that the Soviets might seize on such a situation...
...will be required to answer questions in the Assembly, and the Cabinet will have the right to resign if the ministers feel that they cannot carry out their programs. The new Premier is Djemal Bijedic, 54, a Moslem who has been assembly president of the poor southern republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...Yugoslavia would consist of six federated, autonomous districts (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Montenegro, Macedonia), each with its own local government, schools, customs...
...Jugoslavia" or "South Slavia" is a name coined to condense into one word the numerous petty states officially united as "the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." Unmentioned in either title are Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Voyvodina, Medjumurje, the Island of Krk and the Community of Kastav, which are all included in this little Adriatic state roughly 500 miles long by 209 wide...