Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NATO Nightmares. There are now more Soviet combat troops in Central Europe than at any time since 1945. The arrival of 275,000 Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia drastically unbalances what for two decades had been a relative parity between the opposing NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Furthermore, the new Soviet presence along the Bavarian border of Czechoslovakia turns the flank on NATO's ground defenses, erected and maintained to meet an attack across the flat plains of East Germany...
...refused. Nor could the Soviets prevail upon two Novotnýite conservatives, whom most Czechoslovaks suspected of issuing the call for intervention, to give some credence to the rumor by at least keeping their mouths shut. As soon as they were re-elected to a new Central Committee that Dubċek formed last week, Oldřich Svestka and Jan Filler issued denials that they had asked for Soviet intervention. The Soviets were still unable to identify the mysterious Czechoslovaks who had brought the Warsaw Pact forces running...
Revisionists and Zionists. In a development ominously similar to the scenario that preceded the invasion, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko hastily flew from Prague to Moscow, where the Soviet Central Committee was in emergency session. Next day, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov flew to Prague for talks with President Ludvik Svoboda, 72, whose sagacious firmness in the crisis has won him the affectionate nickname of "Iron Grandfather...
...their priceless art treasures carted off to China. Not long ago a rampaging band of Red Guards smashed the sacred 1,300-year-old Avalokiteshvara, the eleven-headed image of the Buddhist god of mercy. It was cast into the gutter behind Lhasa's ravaged Tsukla-khang (Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their...
...bomb went off on a platform in the busy central bus station. Another exploded beside a nearby vegetable market. The last blasted the exterior of a movie house. One Israeli was killed, and 50 others were wounded, most of them by flying fragments of metal...