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CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. In this story of a young man beginning his working life as a train dispatcher, Czech Director Jiff Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy, yet keeps the film squarely on the track...
Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, who shook a recent congress of the Czech Writers' Union with these angry words, was proved right sooner than he thought; he was forthwith fired from his post as an alternate member of the union's central committee and roundly denounced by the government. Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which for a time was Eastern Europe's most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what...
...past year, many of them for minor traffic violations or petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross the border into Austria...
...sharper scalpels, Gowon, who has been refused arms by the U.S., has turned to the Soviet bloc for help. Last week the Kano airport was shut down for the arrival of secret cargo. The secret was soon out. The cargo included two dozen obsolescent Russian MIG fighters and six Czech L -26 jet trainers that can be fitted to carry bombs and rockets. With them came some 150 Soviet-bloc mechanics, many of them with small arms in holsters at their waists...
Jaruse Vydrova, a chic blonde from Prague, proudly reported last week that, acting on "research into selling methods abroad and market research at home," the Czech refrigerator industry introduced free installations and delivery service. And when the domestic TV industry recently faced a serious production surplus, it took some advice from the marketing researcher and started TV rentals, with great success...