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...weeks, while A.P. Correspondent Bill Oatis lay in jail in Prague, the Czech government had refused to let any American talk to him. Last week U.S. Ambassador Ellis 0. Briggs finally managed for the first time to see him, was allowed a carefully supervised, 30-minute interview at Prague police headquarters. The Czechs insisted that a police official and two Communist translators be present, thus prevented Briggs from asking any but innocuous questions, lest he jeopardize the chances of getting Oatis released...
...democratise the IUS as preconditions for full participation. NSA was in the midst of negotiations to affiliate with the IUS, though having misgivings about its partisan political activity, when the failure of the IUS to protest the firing upon students and the closing of the universities during the Czech coup and the immediate expulsion of the Yugoslavia student union upon the break with Tito with the Soviet Union caused a halt to negotiations. NSA has constantly stated its willingness to fully participate if the IUS will cease its partisan political activity. Frank L. Parker, 3G Chairman, Academic freedom Committee...
...name of the field is rather misleading, for though it includes Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian and Serbo Croation, most undergraduate work is concentrated in Russian language and literature...
...British Private Dennis Eggleton, who deserted to the Soviet four years ago, returned to Berlin, gave himself up. He brought back a report that the Russians had established a "deserters' village" at Bautzen near the Czech-Polish border. There, said Eggleton, U.S., British and French deserters live in good apartments given them on Russian orders, get papers certifying that they are stateless, in turn are made to sign statements saying that they are leading happy lives. Unhappy Deserter Eggleton went off to jail...
Author Egon Hostovsky knows his Czechoslovakia. A veteran of the Czech diplomatic service and a friend of Jan Masaryk, he quit his post as attache in Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...