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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Milka Planinc was
an ethnic Croatian Yugoslav politician. She served as a Socialist
Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the only
female head of government in the history of real socialism. Her mandate
as prime minister was remembered as the times when the government
finally decided to regulate external debt of SFR Yugoslavia and to start
to pay it back. In order to achieve necessary means, her cabinet
implemented restrictive economic measures for a few years. The political
roles which Planinc held during her career included Secretary of the
People's Assembly of Tresnjevka 1957; Secretary of Cultural Affairs of
the City of Zagreb 1961-1963; Secretary of Education 1963-1965;
President of the Assembly 1967-1971; Leader of the Communist Party in
Croatia 1971-1982; and President of the Federal Executive Council of SFR
Yugoslavia 1982-1986
