Word: broadcasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first from the air, as giant Tupolev transports, covered by MIG jet fighters, began landing every minute at Ruzyne airport. The first passengers were the elite paramilitary units of the KBG, the Soviet secret police, whose mission was to secure the capital's airfields, railroad stations, cable offices and broadcast centers. It was perhaps at Ruzyne that the first sign of Czechoslovakia's remarkable campaign of passive resistance appeared. The airport officials refused to supply the Soviet planes with fuel. At nearby Pardubice airport, the Russians had to set up their own control tower after Czechoslovak air force officers...
After the clandestine radio network broadcast the declaration, virtually the entire nation stopped work for one hour at noon the next day. Many joined in solemn demonstrations. About 60 youths linked arms and walked through Wenceslas Square in Prague, asking the crowds to leave the square to the tanks. A deadly hush fell over the square as the people drifted away, clearly unnerving the Russians. Then the city suddenly exploded in noise as drivers in cars leaned on their horns, factory whistles sounded and church bells rang...
...create at least a modicum of government over the recalcitrant Czechoslovaks, the destiny of the nation's reformist vision of Communism was being debated behind closed doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians had done with her son. Slightly dumfounded...
...provide a stamp of legitimacy for a puppet government?and who commands immense popular prestige in both Czechoslovakia and Russia as a World War II leader of the Czechoslovak army that fought with the Soviets against Hitler. Though troops ringed his residence in Hradcany Castle, Svoboda was able to broadcast over the free radio...
...wake of their strike against Gaullist censorship (TIME, July 26), 102 of France's broadcast journalists have been forced out of their jobs or received transfers. Among the dismissed: News Panel Moderator Jacques Legris, Foreign Affairs Analyst Emmanuel de La Taille and Star Sportscaster Roger Couderc. The purge, a repudiation of the government s pledge of amnesty during the strike and a violation of the French constitution, was described by Le Nouvel Observateur as "the scandal of scandals of 1968. Of all the humiliations inflicted by the regime, this one seems the worst...