Jurij Gustinčič (30 August 1921 in

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- 7 June 2014 in Piran) was a Slovene journalist. Chief of the Belgrade journal '' Politika'' in 1951, in 1955 he was sent for nine years as a correspondent in London, and then 14 years in New York City. In 1974, he was praised by the ''

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'' for foretelling the downfall of President

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. In the early 1980s he worked for TV Ljubljana before retiring in 1985. The leading Slovene website Slovenia.si called him a "legend of Slovene journalism" upon his 90th birthday in 2011.

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