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...first Czech student to burn himself to death to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...Harvard astronomer said yesterday that a comet sighted earlier this year by Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek is in fact two comets...
...Upon his return to the United States from Europe in 1938. Lindbergh told everyone who would be futile, that German air strength made war over the Sudeten crisis a non-viable proposition for England, France, and Russia. He endorsed the appeasement at Munich that ceded Czech territory to Germany, and paved the way for the occupation of Czechoslovakia the following year. Cole says that there was no reason to doubt Lindbergh's military assessment, even though almost all other historians-including military experts-who have treated this subject, feel that Germany could have been easily defeated...
American Debut. The flu has reached epidemic proportions in Eastern Europe. Two weeks ago, Radio Budapest announced that the disease had affected 1.3 million, or 9% of Hungary's population. Czech authorities reported that about 900,000 were afflicted in their country; Bulgaria acknowledged 655,000 cases, Yugoslavia 50,000. Last month the flu raged through Moscow, causing some deaths...
Costa Gavras, the creator of Z and State of Siege also made a film called The Confession about the Slansky trials (Czech purge trials) in the late forties. With Yves Montand. This is the beginning of a C-G series at B.U.'s Hayden Hall. Tonight...