Word: czechoslovakia
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...memory of Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia and Hungary is vivid. Withdrawing from Olympic competition and introducing resolutions in the United Nations are too feeble responses to Soviet intervention in independent states. We must let the Soviets know that we will not hesitate to prevent the sale of advanced technology, to cut off scientific and cultural exchanges and to bolster our new alliance with China (possibly even with the sale of non-nuclear arms and computer technology) if Soviet troops invade Poland. We should not renounce the SALT negotiation process, engage in a costly arms race or attempt to starve the Soviet people...
...pregnancy; the rest live under laws that allow abortions under conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship. In the past 15 years, 17 countries (including Canada, India, Norway and Great Britain) have liberalized their abortion laws; in the same period, seven nations (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Iran, Israel and New Zealand) have adopted tougher legislation...
...extensive Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. The war games, originally scheduled to end last week, were prolonged indefinitely. Lengthy nightly television reports gave Poles a chilling view of amphibious landings, mock tank battles and simulated aerial assaults. Warsaw Pact maneuvers had preceded the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; the message was not lost on the Poles...
...town in which he was born a century ago, was ceded to Rumania in 1920. Nagyszöllös, where he wrote his first compositions at the age of nine, is now part of the Soviet Union. Pozsony, where he spent his teen-age years, has become Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He died of leukemia in New York City in 1945, a refugee from the war, living at the end in a cramped apartment on West 57th Street...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...