President Tito in a mellow mood once claimed that anybody seeking a fuller measure of democracy from him was "pushing on an open door." Then along came a young unemployed university teacher to try the door, daring to challenge Tito publicly. It slammed behind him, and last week Mihajlo Mihajlov, 32, was in jail in Zadar, an Adriatic seaside resort.
Mihajlov is the rebellious writer who barely escaped a nine-month jail sentence last year for a series of articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish...
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