YUGOSLAVIA: Pay Enormous Attention

Tito was cuddling up to capitalism. Last week Belgrade's Borba, mouthpiece of Tito's Communist Party, tut-tutted portentously over the past five years of Soviet-type planning and production. "There were, for instance," reported the paper, "ladies' overcoats manufactured by the Naprijed factory that have no pockets, men's coats in several shades, blue sport shirts with black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory in Karlovac were too sharp, but...

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