Volume 25, Number 16 · October 26, 1978
The Truth About Yugoslavia
By Mihajlo Mihajlov, Translated by William E. Harkins
The Yugoslavs
by Dusko Doder
Random House, 256 pp., $10.00
Perhaps the greatest pleasure of my three months-old stay in the United States has been the appearance of this new book about Yugoslavia by Dusko Doder, correspondent for The Washington Post. And this is because since the time of my arrival I have not ceased to be amazed at the lack of understanding here, at times even deliberate silence, concerning what goes on in that small but independent communist country. I think of the articles that have appeared in the American press, such as Eric Bourne's in The Christian Science Monitor of July 25, 1978, under the heading of 'The Yugoslavs: Proud of Their Freedoms'; of the constant repetition of the untruth concerning a 'general amnesty' supposedly granted last year; of the perplexed questions put to me ('Can there really be any political prisoners in Yugoslavia?').
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