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...Eastern Europe, most V-E celebrations honored the victorious Red Army while acknowledging a lesser contribution from Western forces. Czechoslovakia emulated the Soviets with a large military parade. In Poland, traffic was halted briefly in Warsaw for a memorial ceremony...
...that Gorbachev inherits has done its job all too well. As intended, it has stifled the kind of ingenuity and spontaneous assertion that the new Soviet leader now sees as necessary to revitalize his country's economy and society. Says Zdenek Mlynar, a former top Communist Party official in Czechoslovakia who emigrated to Austria in 1977: "The type of human being ideal for the Soviet system is an obedient and reliable person, carrying out orders and directives but devoid of initiative and responsibility." Unlike the Chinese, the Soviets are not inclined to tamper significantly with the basic premises of their...
...into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
Besides Navratilova and Lendt, other seeds posting second-round victoria, Thursday were number four Anders Jarvard and number eight Joskim Nystorm, both of Sweden, in the men's division, and number seven Hans Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia number 10 Carling Bawnt of Canada, number 11 Bonale Goduck, number 14 Paunt Casalle and number 15 Catarium Lindopris of Sweden among that women...
...first round will be completed tonight, when Sweden's Joakim Nystrom plays Vitas Gerulaitis and Eliot Teltscher battles Tomas Smid of Czechoslovakia...