Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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When Yugoslavia's President Tito entered Sarajevo's magnificent new cultural and sports center last week, the 2,300 delegates to an economic conference cheered wildly and gave him a standing ovation. Then, as he strode to the rostrum beneath portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and himself, the throng broke into the war-time song of the Yugoslav partisans, "Comrade Tito, we give you our word, we shall follow...
...Yugoslavia. Dedijer did not go to prison, but he was drummed out of the party. Under the pressure of this persecution, his 13-year-old son committed suicide. Since then, Dedijer has spent much of his time abroad, where he has researched and written books, including The Road to Sarajevo, a penetrating study of the events leading up to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. No longer a formal Communist but still calling himself a "utopian Communist," Dedijer remains on friendly terms with Tito; they share the unbreakable bond of having been wounded in the same battle...
...stranded motorists in the open countryside. The sub-zero cold caused power shortages in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and East Berlin streets were blacked out to conserve electricity. In Yugoslavia, where drifts reached 16 ft. on major highways and to the second floor of buildings in the city of Sarajevo, local papers spoke of "the white catastrophe...