Word: czechoslovakia
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...same time, pursuing another Carter campaign theme - that foreign policy ought to be aimed toward a world order "that is more responsive to human aspirations" - the State Department publicly criticized two Communist countries for their treatment of dissident citizens. First, Czechoslovakia was taken to task for harassing dissidents. The next day, in response to a question by a newsman, State issued a statement rapping Moscow for mistreatment of disaffected Nuclear Scientist Andrei Sakharov. It was the kind of criticism of internal Communist affairs generally avoided by Henry Kissinger...
...Poland, which along with Hungary is the most relaxed of Russia's client states, the Gierek regime has been attacked by Warsaw intellectuals for the "tortures and abuses" of people arrested after last summer's food riots. Perhaps the most flagrant violator of the Helsinki spirit is Czechoslovakia, where the grimly totalitarian government of Gustáv Husák has begun a new assault on dissidence and intellectual freedom...
...West Germans visit East Germany each year, and about 70% of East Germans can receive West German television. Laments a senior East German official: "We have found it's no good telling people they're better off than the Bulgarians or letting them take vacations in Czechoslovakia. They compare their life-style to what they see on Western television and want to travel to Italy, Spain or France...
They come by truck from all over Europe. Some arrive concealed in frozen sheep carcasses from Belgium. Others come hidden under the fenders of shiny new cars from West Germany. Still others arrive concealed within the false bottoms of crates filled with alarm clocks from Czechoslovakia. The hidden cargo is always the same: pistols, submachine guns, mortars and sometimes even rocket launchers. According to one estimate, one out of every ten trucks entering Greece carries contraband weapons. Says Greece's Maritime Minister Alexandras Papadogonas: "The Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that...
...openly pressing the Gierek government to crack down. The Soviets unquestionably wish to avoid using their two tank divisions stationed in Poland to quell protests. Poles, in turn, are reluctant to provoke the Kremlin rulers. "We are always afraid of one thing. We don't want a Czechoslovakia on our soil," said one prominent dissident. "It would be a real war," added one witness to the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Then Nazi troops destroyed the capital, while the Red Army nearby made no move to help. "I've seen Warsaw leveled once in my lifetime," he recalled...