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...more encouraging was the response from Prague last week to the State Department's support of the Czechoslovak dissidents. After threatening hundreds of critics and arresting three prominent signers of Charter 77, the petition calling for observance of the human rights section of the Helsinki accords (TIME, Jan. 24), the Czechoslovak government suddenly altered its repressive course. Many analysts thought party leaders had become convinced that the damage done to Czechoslovakia's image abroad had finally outweighed the advantages of successfully extinguishing dissidence at home...
...this case, the moderating effect of the Carter Administration's critique was amplified by a chorus of other voices. Not since the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had so much obloquy fallen on a Communist government. Among those who denounced the Czechoslovak campaign against the 500 signers of Charter 77 were the British Foreign Office, the French, Spanish, Italian and British Communist Parties, the European Economic Community and the leaders of the Socialist International. Norway called off the signing of a new trade treaty with Czechoslovakia, and Peking's People's Daily lauded the Czechoslovak people...
Early last week, the State Department publicly rapped Czechoslovakia for not living up to the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Specifically, State took the Czechs to task for harassing many of some 300 Czechoslovak intellectuals who had signed a petition called Charter 77 demanding various domestic reforms. Next day, there was another State blast on human rights, this time aimed at the Soviet Union and concerning its leading resident dissident, Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize...
...with another nightmare looming on the aviation horizon-Skytrain, Freddie Laker's proposed international air shuttle. Skytrain is aimed at a sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not cater to: passengers who are both on a budget and unable to plan ahead for cheap charter fares. They include, in Laker's definition, the less than affluent citizen "who gets a call that Aunt Matilda is very sick and wants to visit her before she dies...
Later, Laker became the first head of British United Airways, then the country's largest independent airline, but in 1965 resigned to start his own charter line. Laker Airways has grown into a prosperous concern with current net assets of $140 million. Although he is not one for spartan living himself -he buys a new Rolls-Royce every year and maintains a yacht in Majorca -Laker keeps his business operation lean. A staff of fewer than 20 works out of a modest ten-room block at London's Gatwick Airport, where the boss's own office measures...