Word: czechoslovakia
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Albright's lips may not move, but her feet are about to do a lot of talking. Next week she will spend three days in the Czech Republic. The official reason is to commemorate the 150th birthday of TOMAS MASARYK, the first President of Czechoslovakia, known as the father of Czech democracy. Her schedule could be torn from a page in a presidential campaign. Next Monday she will fly to southern Moravia to receive a gold medal at Masaryk University in Brno; then it's off to Hodonin to visit Masaryk's birthplace. Albright is either testing the waters...
...Albright's lips may not move, but her feet are about to do a lot of talking. Next week she will spend three days in the Czech Republic. The official reason is to commemorate the 150th birthday of Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, known as the father of Czech democracy. Her schedule could be torn from a page in a presidential campaign: Next Monday she will fly to southern Moravia to receive a gold medal at Masaryk University in Brno; then it's off to Hodonin to visit Masaryk's birthplace. Either Albright is testing the waters...
...source of the storm is Vasili Mitrokhin, 77, who in 1972 was the officer in charge of checking, sealing and moving to a new headquarters 300,000 files kept by the KGB's foreign intelligence service. Disillusioned by the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he set about copying in longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence...
...mode to professor. It's important to keep in mind Russia's complex history with Serbia, she lectured, leaning back in her seat and propping her glasses atop her head. There are long-standing cultural and religious ties, but Tito broke with Stalin and even supported the liberals in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring of 1968. Our fight with Serbia has dangerously alienated Russians, she noted, and it would be useful to allow them to be the ones to help solve...
...about that, the President stares coldly for a few seconds and his face hardens. "No." Long pause. "No. I have nothing to say on that." He is more expansive on the personal qualities she brings to her role. "She not only learned the lessons of Munich, but also of Czechoslovakia under communism...