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...Czech Competition...
Last January, Murdoch gained control of the 6,130,000-circulation News of the World, a lurid Sunday paper, by outmaneuvering a bigger bidder, Czech-born Robert Maxwell. The deal prompted Maxwell to remark of Murdoch: "He has caught a big fish with a very small hook." Under Murdoch's direction the fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London...
...history had it-by the Communists, under Soviet direction, two weeks after the party had taken power in Czechoslovakia. The guilty party was quick to declare Masaryk a suicide. Even in 1948, hardly anybody in Prague believed the story. Four weeks ago, after more than 20 years, the Czech Communists closed an investigation they themselves had opened under the liberal Dubcek regime. Despite the new presence of the Russian army, they withdrew the suicide verdict. But in a grotesque compromise (TIME, Dec. 19, 1969), they decided that Masaryk's fall from his bathroom window was an accident...
...that very fixity of high moral purpose under the slogan of no more Munichs has in fact, because of our preoccupation with civil war in Indochina, brought it to pass that ironically precisely the Czech frontiers were once again forcibly crossed at the very moment when there was such substantial hope that Czechoslovakia might prove to emerge for the good of all mankind as an irenic mediator between the Communist and the Western political and economic systems. One can scarely imagine a more damaging consequence of our government's alleged sole rationale for the Vietnam War in terms of respect...
...black, Czech-built Tatra limousine pulled up outside Bonn's White House, the Villa Hammerschmidt. Out stepped two East German diplomats, chilled from their unannounced eleven-hour journey over the icy autobahn from East Berlin. They carried a letter from East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to West German President Gustav Heinemann...