Word: czechoslovakia
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...before the supreme court ruling. "People were afraid of something happening-chaos, confrontation, the police, a stupid move by somebody," said a Warsaw journalist. Observed a Western diplomat: "They were huddling around their radios, and trying to remember what they had heard about the events preceding the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...power. A master of political survival, who was said by Dissident Leader Andrei Sakharov to be "the most intelligent and toughest man in the Politburo," Kosygin periodically differed with Brezhnev both on economic and foreign policy. In 1968, for instance, he was thought to have opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
Poles themselves give the impression of being a people constantly shushing one another. They have to; the message is always clear: Let's not go too far; remember Czechoslovakia. But if there were only shushing, hardships would never be eased. As in all Communist regimes, Poland's leaders have made it hard for the Western press to report the nation's problems. Most Western reporters are let in only for brief periods on single-entry visas. Forehandedly, after months of planning, the New York Times was able to get accreditation for John Darnton, now the only...
...been World's senior researcher since 1973. She came to the U.S. from Hungary as an eighth-grader in 1957, but she still speaks Hungarian and follows events in Eastern Europe avidly. "Having lived through the Hungarian revolution," she says, "and handled our stories on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, I've naturally been haunted by this situation, its parallels with the past, as well as its differences." For the cover she culled through stacks of files in TIME'S library, helping to round out the story's political and historical background. Kohan normally covers Religion for TIME...
...most tightly controlled. Fuller is still doing this in Big Red, but in a much more benign way. In the movie, which traces the lives of four privates and their sergeant (Lee Marvin) from their landing in North Africa in 1942 to the liberation of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945, one keeps expecting at least one of them to be killed. But they defy expectation by surviving, implying that in brotherhood there is a strength bordering on the magical...