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Show 6 has no husband to take c • '-e of her. Here everyone will be taken care of. The old people up on the mountain, they are not communist. They have their own land, not the big land they once had, but enough. They have goats and sheep. They give nothing to the government and they take nothing from it." The discussion got involved with the 'privatniks'on the mountain and their past and Delilah took her leave. The lights were on at Sveti Stefan and the island sparkled. Foreign and Yugoslav plates identified the cars parked in the driveways of the houses along the road and Delilah walked along catching glimpses of the faces on the patios and enjoyed her dark vantage point, AS she entered the glow of tr.e street light at the last switchback the tables were turned as a Mercedes limousine cruised past and she stared into its dark windows. The car disappeared ahead of her and she hurried down the road. Delilah's job in the evenings was to guide the english speaking guests on a tour of the island. Tonight twelve people followed her. She led them up the cobbled passages past old, white stucco and red tiled houses that now were two bedroom suites. "The houses on Sveti Stefan were built with pirate's plunder. In the sixteenth century pirates sailed these waters for many years sacking the towns and villages. When they were finally caught a great deal of wealth was recovered and the King( of Serbia decreed that a town should be built on Svrti Stefan and a house given to each family known to have lost everything to the pirates." "This town survived for over one hundred yejrs but the years during the two world wars left the town depopulated and |