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...than shame!" When they spotted Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko's black Chaika limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment, the gates threatened to give way, but a squad of Czech police and militia managed to push the crowd back. The Soviet ambassador left by the back door...
...next twelve hours, demonstrations swirled across Prague in a release of pent-up animosity against the occupiers. In the afternoon, 10,000 people marched through the city's center after a protest rally in the Old Town Square in front of the monument to the 15th century Czech reformer Jan Hus. In the evening, demonstrators waving Czech flags marched to the National Theater, where the audience later gave a thunderous, emotional ovation to the final aria of Smetana's opera Libuse...
...beloved Czech nation will...
...campaign's focus on nuclear strategy tends to overlook pressing questions about national defense, especially in regard to Europe and the Mid-East. The Soviet army's performance in the Czech invasion impressed Western observers as "brilliant" and "faultless"; in the Mediterranean, with ready access to any war zones in the Mid-East, the Soviets have recently established a fleet of at least 50 ships and have secured use of an excellent port in Algeria. NATO forces, on the other hand, are understaffed even by pre-invasion levels, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, which has been weakened by sending reinforcements...
...myself, when I go into the college to recruit, I don't ask, one way or other, that is, it doesn't matter to me, you see, whether he's Jewish, Polish, Czech, whatever...