RADIO FREE EUROPE $ésearch COMMUNIST AREA ‘This material was prepared forthe use of the editors and policy staf of Radio Free Europe. 2073 YUGOSLAVIA: Party 31 May 1974 € A BRIEF PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE YUGOSLAV PARTY CONGRESS € Summary: With the clecvion of Josip Broz Tito as Party President for an unlimited period-of time, the Tenth Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia concluded its four-day work in Belgrade on May 30. -One of the most important aspects of the congress Seen to be the strengthening of the army generals' position in the top party echelons. A new Central Committes of 166 members was elected, as well as the CC Presidium. of -35 members and an Executive Committee of 12 members. .Stane Dolane was elected Secretary of the Executive. Committee. What is ‘the most important aspect of the Terith Congress of the League of Yugoslavia, held in Belgrade May 27-30? It is the strengthening of ‘the army generals' position in the top echelon= of the party.“ The theme of. the gathering -- a "congress of stabilization" -- makes it easier to understand why the army generals are to play an important role in a tightening-un of policy on both state and party levels. For the first time in many years, an active duty general, ivan Kukoe [ku-koch], a Croat, has become a member of the party's Executive Committee. Two generals are in the 39-mexber Presi- dium of the Central Committee: Nikola Ljubicie, a Serb, the ‘country's Minister of Defense, and Dzemail Sarac [sha-rats], a Moslem, the leader’ of the army party organization. In the 166- member Central Committee there are 1§ generals as well as other army officers. Recently an active-duty army general, Franjo Herljevic, a Croat, was appointed Yugoslavia's new Minister of Internal Affairs, Another army general, Dr. Vuko Coce-Gucetic lgo-tse-gu-che-tich], also a Croat, was appointed Yugoslavia's new Public Prosecutor... This strengthening of the army's position in both the state and the party apparatuses is obviously-designed t.» demon-~ strate Ti to's and his chief ides’ resolve to defend the country's unity. and independence against internal and external enemies. - * Speechés delivered at the Tenth Congress were full of pledges that Yugoslavia's independence will be defended against any possible aggressors. There is no doubt that the Yugoslav army has been the only solid guarantor--with the exception of President Tito himself, whose prestige and authority has beem beyond -anv doubt-- ‘that the country would survive after Tito's death. On May 30, the last day of the congress, Tito was elected President of the LCY “with no limitation of mandate." The 9 proposal made by Macedonian leader Lazar Xolisevski was enthusias- tically greeted by the delegates, who rose to their feet and o sang the old partisan song: "Comrade fito we swear to you that cwe shall rever deviate from your road’ and "We belong to Tito and Tito belongs to.us!" . After the 166-member Central Committee ‘was’ elected and held ‘its first‘ session, the Following péople were eléctéd'to the Presidium cf the CC: # “ Roman Albreht, 53, Slovene Dr. Vladimir Bakaric, ‘62, Croat 3°. Imre Balint, 44, Hungaz‘ian Dzemal -Bijedic, 37, Moslem dure Bilic, 52, Croat ~Stane"Dolane ;°49, Slovene 7. . Stevan Doronjski, $5, Serb 8. Rato Dugonjic, 58, Serb wo -:9.. Kiro Gligorov, 57, Macedonian 10, Aleksandar Grlickov [ger-lich-kov], 51, Macedonian ll. :- Fadil Hoxha, 64, Albanian " 12. Edvard Kardelj, 64, Slovene - 13, ‘Lazar Kolisevski, 60, Macedonian 14. ‘Todo Kurtovic, 55, Serb 18, General. Nikola Ljubicic, 58, Serb 16. :Krste Markovski, 49, Macedonian 1]. Cvijetin Mijatovic, 61, Serb 18. Milos Minic, 59 » Serb 19, Dusan Petrovic,-60,; Serb 20. Mirko Popovic, Serb 21. Dusan Ristic, SerbJoze Smole, 47, Slovene Vojo Srzentic, 40, “Montenegrin Petar Stambolic, 62, Serb Mika Spiljak, 58, Croat Veljko, Viahovic, 60, Montenegrin “Josip Vrhovec, 48, Croat .Jovan Vujadinovic, 53, Montenegrin 23, Vidoje Zarkovic, 47, Montefiegrs All six presidents of the republican zentral committees, two presidents cf the provincial Committees and the secretary of the army party organizations (nine altogether) are’ ex officio members of the Central Committee‘s presidium. , They avez oe oe 30, Dr. Tihomir Vlaskalic, $1, Serb 31. “Mme, Milka Planinc, 50,\ Croat 32. Angel Cemerski, 51, Macedonian. Si, Frane Popit, 53, Slovene 34. Branko Mikulic, 46, Croat (from Bosnia} 367° “Weselin Djuranovic, 49, Montenegrin 36° :Dusan-Alimpic, $3, Serb (from-Vojvodina) Mahmut Bakalli, .38,° Albanian. (from. Kosovo) General Dzemail Sarac, 53, Moslem (for the Army) es ‘The 39th member of the CC Presidium is Tito as its president. The: newly-elected Executive Committee (formerly Executive Bureau) is composed of 12 members (previously eight). Six of. them were elected from among the CC Presidium members and six from among the ordinary CC members. The first six have the title of secre- taries and will be in charge of individual departments. They are: 1. Stane Dolanc, Secretary of the EC, Slovene 2. Todo Kurtovic, Serb 3. Mirko. Popovic, Serb 4. -Vojo Srzentic, Montenegrin 5. Jure Bilic, Croat 6. Aleksandar Grlickov, Macedonian 7. Dobrivoje Vidic, 58, Serb - 8. General Ivan Kukoc [ku-koch], 56, Croat9.MDusan Popovic, 53, Serb ‘junih Mesihovic, 46, Moslem Ali Sukrija (shu-kri-ya], 55,, Albanian ‘Dragoljub Stavrev, 42, Macedonian The nationality’ composition of the two top, party agencies (the CC Presidium with 39 members and.the remaining six members of the Executive Committee because the first six are already included among the Presidium members ) is as follows: © iserps,, | 1. Sroate- ‘Madeddaie ns Slovenes 6 5 Montenegrins 5 Moslens 3 Albanians 3 ‘Hungarians 1 It appears that the Serbs and Montenegrins are represented by 19 members while all other nationalities add up to 26 persons. The proportion is even greater in the 166-member Central Committee dn which each of the six republican parties delegated 20 members, e the two provincial parties 15 members each and the army 15 members. This makes a total of 165 members plus President Tito @ as the 166th nemver. mem . Slobodan Stankovic