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Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

Marshal Tito shuns Stalin in 1948; saving the whale forty years ago; the downing of Air India Flight 182; Britain鈥檚 first black woman MP and the life of writer James Salter.

In June 1948 Marshal Tito shocked the world by shunning his former Soviet ally, Stalin; plus the downing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985; the first direct action by environmental activists forty years ago; Britain鈥檚 first black woman MP and the life of writer and pilot, James Salter.

Photo Dragica Srzentic.

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