Word: czechoslovakia
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...their viewpoint. Consequently, instead of a spectrum of viewpoints which could at worst be called middle-class, Cuba's press has only one government line. Where could a writer living in a country which has been the victim of foreign interventionists express outrage over the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia? Insipid thought control becomes absurd. Cubans are instructed that Ernest Hemingway exploited them because he made money from writing...
...white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton, who dispatched a convoy of tanks into Czechoslovakia to escort 200 Lipizzan mares and foals to safety...
Jiri Pelikan, a former member of the deposed Dubcek government in Czechoslovakia, told a group of about 30 people in Cabot Hall last hight that contradictions between the ideals and the practice of socialism gave rise to the 1968 "Spring of Prague...
Pelikan, a leader of the exiled socialist opposition, said that students, intellectuals and workers in Czechoslovakia united to restore these ideals during the first six months of 1968 when Czeshoslovakia attempted to democratize its political system...
...foreign policy, Tolbert has gone a long way toward shedding Liberia's reputation as a docile U.S. colony. While staying on good terms with the U.S., he has established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He has wheedled a better deal out of foreign concessionaires who export Liberia's iron ore and rubber, increasing the revenues to his treasury by some $5,000,000 a year. He is hoping to attract another $700 million from U.S. and Japanese sources for a huge new iron-ore project at Wologisi (estimated reserves: up to a billion tons...