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Behind the Iron Curtain, the war on the Roman Catholic Church continued. In a letter to the Czech State Prosecutor, which reached the press last week, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran detailed what had happened to him since he was "interned" in his palace (TIME, JUNE...
...last week from the retreating Red guerrillas. Pavlides and his comrades were joyfully poking around among the neat little pine-board chalets (which had housed Nico Zachariades, John Ioannides and other Communist guerrilla leaders), looking for equipment and stores left behind by the fleeing Reds. They found everything from Czech motorcycles and electric sewing machines to frilly underwear for the andartissa (female guerrillas...
Love in Czechoslovakia, the Communists announced last week, is dangerously tainted by commercialism. Ever since marriage advertisements were banned from the Czech newspapers, reported Prague's Communist Rude Pravo (Red Right), "editors keep getting letters from men as well as women complaining that now they have no chance to obtain mates...
...Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a middle-aged woman carrying a big radio set. As he watched, she moved into room 130, next door. Tütsch later pointed out the woman to well-informed Czech friends, learned that she and her husband were both notorious police spies...
...last week, Tütsch spotted a strange piece of wire in his room. When he followed it along the wall, it led him out on the balcony, then through the window of room 130. Stepping inside, Tütsch confronted the Czech espionage team. They were comfortably lounging in easy chairs next to a big loudspeaker, expectantly waiting for noises from next door. Said Tütsch: "They were very much surprised to see me." Indignantly, Tütsch marched to the office of Czech Press Boss Evzen Klinger, charged him with a "flagrant breach of confidence," and headed...