Word: czechoslovakia
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...convince their Soviet-bloc allies that they have not bought labor peace at the expense of the party's power monopoly. That was the apparent aim of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania's surprise visits to Prague and East Berlin last week. Party Bosses Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia and Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain enough time to bring the Polish...
...question that the terrorist groups of more than a decade ago, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Black September movement, depended on the Soviet-allied countries of Syria, Iraq, Libya and South Yemen for training, money and arms. Some also trained in Czechoslovakia and even the Soviet Union. Other groups, such as the Japanese Red Army and Italy's Red Brigades, have more tenuous Soviet links...
...need so many submarines. Why then, is it doing these things? I know that although it growls at Europe for stationing cruise missiles, it's got the most modern-theater nuclear weapons in the S520. I know that they marched into Afghanistan, I know they are in Hungary, Czechoslovakia. They've got Cuban surrogates in Angola. I know that they've given help to both Somalia and Ethiopia. I know that there have been problems in the Caribbean, problems in Central America. Why? It is actually culpable if a leader does not make an assessment of that...
...nation's biggest power producer within a decade after its 1933 creation, and was equally aggressive at the AEC. One Senator accused him of running the TVA like "a Führer," and opponents used the fact that his parents came from what is now Communist Czechoslovakia to cast doubt on his loyalty. When under fire, Lilienthal, a college boxer, liked to recall a bout he had with a pro: it "taught me something about coming up off the floor and taking more-which has come in handy...
...Kremlin comrades would love to seduce the Europeans from Washington's orbit, and to maintain Communist rule in Poland merely by the posturings of force. But no one doubts that if necessary they will resort to its use, just as they did in Afghanistan last December and in Czechoslovakia twelve years...