The World - News from June 3, 1988

Milovan Djilas, once a top leader of Communist Yugoslavia, said Yugoslavia “will either be a democratic confederation or it will disintegrate.” Hundreds of university students applauded as Yugoslavia’s best-known dissident gave his first lecture in the country since being purged in 1954. Djilas, 76, was invited to Maribor University in the liberal-leaning republic of Slovenia to speak on pluralism and one-party politics. Djilas, once the closest deputy of Marshal Tito, told the students that in Yugoslavia, “every republic, internally different, should find compromises through a democratic coalition.”