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...last three Olympics Czech, Italian, and German crews have won the four-oars with cox event. In 1964, the odds-on favorites are the Russians. A four from Dusseldorf rowed them into the water in Rome in 1960, and the exhausted USSR four fell back to fourth place after running second most...
...planes dropped a bale of printed matter over the Rhine and sank an enemy ship. I now recognize the effectiveness of your propaganda." During the cold war, when Jackson was active in a project to launch propaganda balloons over Czechoslovakia, he reported dreaming that he himself was floating over Czech territory with "svoboda" (freedom) lettered on his trousers...
...trade between free and Red Europe. Austria's Interior Minister Franz Olah, whose country ranks as the No. 1 clandestine exporter, recently pleaded with his countrymen to respect the satellites' customs and currency regulations. Since April, 20 Austrians have been arrested in Czechoslovakia on smuggling charges. A Czech court convicted one Austrian couple and an accomplice of making 49 visits to Czechoslovakia to cart in, among other items, 256 nylon coats, 39 transistor radios, 42 pairs of stockings and 22 Ibs. of chocolate...
Communist officials have made motions to discourage the clandestine commerce. The number of Polish custom guards has been trebled, and Czech police now even dismantle entire automobiles. But it is obvious that the Red regimes do not care too much so long as a citizen does not make a career out of contraband. The maximum prison term for smuggling is 15 years, but violators rarely get anywhere near that much. Smuggling, after all, relieves some of the growing pressures in Eastern Europe for more and better consumer goods, which the satellite economies so far have proved almost incapable of providing...
Trimming the Bureaucracy. Post-Stalin liberalism in the bloc is bringing self-criticism and some slow improvement. The Czech government is turning back to private ownership in such small enterprises as tailor shops, laundries and hat-check concessions. To provide more laborers, it is also trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that...