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...years he was reviled as an archtraitor of Communism, the heretic who destroyed the unity of the Marxist faith. But last week, in a dramatic culmination of a historic reversal of Soviet policy, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito was treated to a hero's welcome in Moscow. At a state dinner in Tito's honor, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev did not even allude to the earlier disagreements that led to the 1948 break between Stalin and Tito. Instead, Brezhnev praised Tito for "your friendly attitude toward our country." In perhaps the most ironic turnabout of all, Tito...
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...
Yugoslavia's economic split personality began emerging in 1950, when Marshal Josip Broz Tito rejected Soviet-style central planning in favor of economic decentralization. Under his "self-management" system, workers' councils set wage rates and product prices in each enterprise, and theoretically have the power to fire managers, who are responsible to the councils rather than to a state ministry. Kiro Gligorov, a leader of Yugoslavia's League of Communists and the nation's chief economist, explained to TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "We believe that the state cannot replace private owners in the management of enterprises...
...Yugoslavia's central government. The well-timed incidents provided a grim counterpoint to an urgent meeting of Yugoslav political leaders in Belgrade. As a result of earlier separatist agitation in Croatia (TIME, Dec. 27), which had been a direct challenge to Yugoslavia's federal system, President Josip Broz Tito, nearly 80 but amazingly robust, had summoned 367 of the nation's political leaders to Belgrade for a three-day party conference. The basic issue in the talks: How much political and economic freedom can Yugoslavia give to its six republics and two autonomous provinces without coming apart...
...confrontation took place despite the best efforts of President Josip Broz Tito to prevent it. Tito last summer forced the central government to surrender much of its political and economic powers to the country's six republics and two autonomous provinces. The Croats, as it turned out, were not satisfied. Encouraged by extremist exile groups in West Germany and Eastern Europe, many Croats continued to accuse the central government of taking away too much of the republic's earnings from foreign tourists and giving the money to less prosperous Yugoslav regions. Some Croatian nationalists even demanded a separate...