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...four -- Czechoslovak-born players reached the finals of the U.S. Open last week, the first time any single country was so well represented. When it was all over and done at New York City's National Tennis Center, Helena Sukova, 21, and Miloslav Mecir, 22, flew home to Czechoslovakia and hero's welcomes, while the victorious Czechomericans Ivan Lendl, 26, and Martina Navratilova, 29, collected their $210,000 prizes and stayed on in their adopted country. Although he is still a Czech citizen, Lendl has places in Florida, New York and Connecticut, and has not been back to his native...
...American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December 1979 the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage...
...exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol, the Communist youth group, at a higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue jacket. Reporters called him the "urban guerrilla...
While Kadar was cannily constructing Hungary's halfway-house economy, he scrupulously followed the Soviet line in matters of foreign policy. Hungarian troops took part in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and its athletes joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. When Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Budapest in June for a Warsaw Pact summit, Kadar guided him through the streets, greeting curious crowds with hearty smiles...
Still, every time it seems in trouble, Czechoslovakia always manages to overcome its problems by producing more champions. With Mandlikova, Sukova and the other top Czechoslovaks facing Navratilova as head of the U.S. team in the Federation Cup finals this week, it is evident once again that tennis according to Marx can be a winning proposition...