YUGOSLAVIA: Sop to the Soviets

"In my articles I always wanted to help Yugoslavia. I am simply fighting for the rights set out in the constitution." So pleaded Mihajlo Mihajlov last week as he stood before five stern-faced jud es in a courtroom at Novi Sad, about 75 miles northwest of Belgrade. For the 40-year-old dissident author, who was arrested last October, that fight involves denouncing his country's one-party system—even at his own trial. To no one's surprise, the justices, all of whom are members of the League of Yugoslav Communists, ignored his arguments and found...

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