Word: czechoslovakia
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PALME: Neutrality has never condemned us to be silent on world issues. Never. When we protested against Hungary, Czechoslovakia or the Berlin Wall in fairly strong language, we didn't hear anything from the White House about our neutrality. There is a long-term political objective...It's all right for the superpowers to have detente...Bui one of the dangers is that if the superpowers have a detente among themselves they might feel free to push small countries around. The danger is this, that the enormous power of the superpowers will be a threat to the independence...
...continues these kinds of horrors, what about the next time there is trouble in Eastern Europe? The U.S. has lost all moral grounds for complaining. It is a convergence of the Soviet and U.S. systems. The U.S. did something that the Soviets were prepared to do in Czechoslovakia. The Brezhnev and Nixon doctrines are dangerous for small countries...
Yugoslav leaders have accused the CIA of trying to take advantage of upheavals. The army, which has 650 U.S.-made Sherman tanks and some aging American jet fighters in its inventory, is plainly geared to fight off a Czechoslovakia-style invasion from the East...
Devout Harvard hockey fans waited in line last Thursday for up to three hours to buy the few precious tickets available for Saturday's Cornell game. With their appetites whetted by the tie with Czechoslovakia, they eagerly poured into Watson Rink anticipating a sweet victory over the Big Red from Ithaca--only to be stunned by a 5-2 Cornell upset...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA is planning to establish "houses of political education" throughout the country by 1975. Meanwhile the Husak regime plans a broadcast blitz stressing "the ever-improving conditions under socialism." Its main targets: the 2,000,000 Czechoslovaks who regularly tune in to Austrian and West German television...