Stars too far
Subtitle: a memoir of diplomatic confrontation in Yugoslavia
By: Laszlo Toth.
Series: East European monographs ;; no. 578
Publisher: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Toth, Laszlo -- Imprisonment.; Political prisoners -- Yugoslavia -- Biography.; Political prisoners -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Yugoslavia.; Yugoslavia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In 1975, Laszlo Toth, a U.S. citizen and then the director of technical research at the Great Western Sugar Company in Colorado, was visiting his native country of Yugoslavia to work on its continuing technical cooperation with other European nations. As part of this effort, he had agreed to provide photographs of a Yugoslav sugar plant.".

"During this visit to his home town of Vrbas, Toth was shocked to find himself arrested by the Yugoslav State Security, charged with spying as a CIA agent, tried in a "kangaroo court," and sentenced to seven years in the notorious maximum-security prison Sremska Mitrovica.".

"Stars Too Far describes his harrowing experiences and how the ensuing struggle for his freedom, involving such key figures as President Gerald Ford and Foreign Secretary Henry Kissinger, led to one of the lowest points in relations between the American and Yugoslav governments since World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Tailing; title: 2 Before the Storm; title: 3 The Secret Police; title: 4 The Rat; title: 5 Vinca; title: 6 The Arrest; title: 7 The Provincial Prison; title: 3 8 The Fight Back; title: 9 Zora Seeks Help; title: 10 U.S. Action Starts; title: 1I Survival; title: 42 The First Day of the Trial; title: The Second Day of the Trial; title: Letters; title: The Flag; title: "Friends"; title: Dirty Tricks; title: In the Name of the People; title: Documents and News Media - 1 20 The Stars Too Far; title: 21 The Door to the Catacombs; title: 22 Capers; title: 23 Documents and News Media -2; title: 24 The Transport; title: 25 Federal Prison; title: 26 Welcome to Sremska Mitrovica; title: 27 Zora; title: 28 Prison Collage; title: 29 Political Mosaics; title: 30 Documents and News Media - 3; title: 31 The Tired Veteran; title: 32 Rolling the Dice; title: 33 Media Echo; title: 34 Epilogue.