Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel will not speak at this year's Commencement Exercises, declining the Harvard invitation because the speech would have fallen just one day before his country's first free elections since World...
Despite early optimism that the Czech leader would accept the Commencement offer and the honorary degree that traditionally accompanies it, an embassy spokesperson said yesterday Havel will not be able to travel to the U.S. in early June because the crucial elections are scheduled for June...
Bush and his top aides have been telling virtually every Central European visitor to Washington -- German, Pole, Czech -- that NATO should remain intact and G.I.s should stay in West Germany, so that the postwar order does not give way to post-postwar disorder. Bush has been making essentially the same case to Gorbachev in their correspondence and telephone conversations, and he will do so in person at their summit in the U.S. this June...
These academic distractions can ruin the entertainment. The lovers' talk is smart, witty and direct -- an eavesdropper's fantasy. The posterotic mood is sophisticated; the mature pair give each other plenty of latitude and genuine affection. There are other voices in other rooms: a Czech woman and her husband, who accuses Philip of making him a cuckold. More confusion and explanations...
...leadership. The Hungarians even overthrew their government and enjoyed one heady week of independence. Then Khrushchev sent in Soviet tanks to restore the old order. When he was forced out in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev seemed even more determined to maintain that old order forever, sending more tanks to suppress Czech independence in 1968 and warning that he would do so again whenever necessary. He too proclaimed a new constitution in 1977, declaring more strongly than ever that the Communist Party was "the leading and guiding force of Soviet society...