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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opening Old Wounds. The political transformation has altered many lives. Some have benefited from it; others have come to grief. Everywhere, people talk endlessly about the past and compare their sufferings, opening old wounds and cursing those responsible for them. "People must talk about these things and keep talking," says Museum Clerk Karel Nigrin, 64, who spent eight years in solitary and seven at hard labor as a political prisoner. "This regime has allowed them to talk like no other Communist regime ever...
...talking about politics, art, love-anything-critically, angrily and happily, however I felt," says Miss Daničková. "But when I came home, it was silence. You couldn't really participate in the life of your country. Now you can." Another Czechoslovak who found that he could come home again is Author Ladislav Mriačko, who went into exile last summer in protest over his government's pro-Arab policy. Mnačko is back in Prague, where his biting novel about a Communist leader's downfall, The Taste of Power, has just been published...
Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...
With people taking so many foolish chances in the movie, the Green Berets will probably not even want to use it as a recruiting come...
...less seniority (168 years) than any other Scottish regiment, and many of its "Highlander" troops come from Glasgow or London. Still, that has not prevented the British army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from enjoying a reputation almost as fierce as that of the mountain lairds of ancient Scotland. Some of the kilted troops, in fact, especially when the skirling of the pipers is loudest, trace the beginning of the regiment to "the licking we gave the English at Bannockburn" in 1314, when Scotland won temporary independence. Last week Britain finally gained a revenge of sorts. As part...