YUGOSLAVIA: Incident on Green Mountain

When the war began, Olga Dedier was a dark-haired girl with a medical degree and a passion for skiing. She worked in Belgrade's anti-Fascist youth movement, often made flapjacks for her journalist husband Vladimir, who learned to like them in America. In the war's first year she bore a daughter, Militsa.

In a hospital bed in Cairo last week Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dedier of the Partisans gave some old friends among the correspondents later news of his wife. Major Olga Dedier of the Medical Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's...

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