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Four years after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia, the Russian presence still dominates the country, in sometimes unexpected ways. Fully 60,000 Soviet troops are stationed there, but Moscow has also poured an estimated $1 billion in aid into Czechoslovakia, in an obvious attempt to buy civil peace, if not the loyalty of the country's citizens. As a result, a surface prosperity prevails in Prague that contrasts curiously with the mood of Czechoslovaks; as a nation they remain gripped by apathy and despair. TIME'S Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, who covered Czechoslovakia before the invasion, returned there...
...massive campaign to restore and regild its splendid baroque churches and monuments. Its shop windows are filled with consumer goods imported from the capitalist West as well as from the Communist East. No fewer than 7,000,000 tourists from East Germany and other Soviet-bloc countries swarmed into Czechoslovakia this year in pursuit of luxuries not readily available at home. These include Spanish bananas and oranges, Italian shoes, Camembert cheese and Beaujolais from France, and Czechoslovak brassières and girdles that, at long last, are beginning to encase Russian and East European flab in tough new elastic...
Although only a freshman, she will miss a month of school to travel to Czechoslovakia to participate in the World Championships in February. "I'll make up the work somehow," she said, explaining that she missed 102 days of high school last year in South Orange...
...home -although many of them would hardly have suggested a trade embargo of the Soviet Union because of similar treatment meted out to the Ukrainians, for instance, or because of the fact that thousands of nameless Russians are in labor camps, or even because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The conservatives who voted for the amendment are hardly more consistent. While usually ready enough to put pressure on the Soviet Union, they resist similar actions proposed by liberals against right-wing regimes, for instance, in Greece or Brazil...
...accurate information," declared Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada last week, as he proceeded to rattle off a lengthy list of potential invaders. They included neighboring Tanzania, Britain, Israel, Zambia, India, Rwanda, Sudan, "some countries in NATO," plus "two other countries"-one of them presumably China-all conspiring with Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Malawi and Guyana. But Ugandans should not worry, Amin added, because "the Uganda armed forces are prepared to deal with the threat," and he was in direct command...