Word: czechoslovakia
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...past, East bloc countries have felt freer to deal with the West during periods of detente. But loosening the Soviet grip can be risky. Whenever East European countries have tilted too far to the West, the Soviets have forcibly jerked them back, as they did to Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland...
...many voices, especially since the Geneva summit, which swear that the Soviets have a sincere desire to settle the Afghanistan issue through peaceful means are engaging in wishful thinking, or conscious deception, or both. These same voices probably hailed Moscow's promised peaceful solutions for Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Soviet outrages in these countries look like Cub Scout outings compared to their current actions in Afghanistan. It would be hopelessly naive to believe that the present leadership in Moscow has any intention of ceasing the bloodshed until political "peace" is established on their own terms...
Farrakhan is a demagogue, though not much of one. Compared with North Carolina's Senator Bob Reynolds, who in 1939 likened the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia to the American pioneer spirit, Farrakhan is rational. Compared with the old antiblack, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish demagogues of the South, like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina, who boasted to the Senate, "We shot the Negroes" and "we are not ashamed of it," Farrakhan is harmless, at least for the present. He uses the basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that...
...using the false name Sonja Luneburg disappeared last August after serving for twelve years as secretary to Martin Bangemann, the West German Minister of Economics. Another woman living under an alias, Ursula Richter, 52, worked as a bookkeeper for a Bonn- based lobbying group for German refugees from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. She also vanished last summer...
...game was tennis, but the final score was Czechmate. No two Europeans had ever won the U.S. Open singles championships in the same year. But last week Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, 25, and Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who tend to choke in major matches. This time, despite a couple of 90 degrees -plus afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title...