Word: czechoslovakia
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...counter Grivas' threat, Makarios' archbishopric and the wealthy monks of the Kykko monastery together spent $2,500,000 to purchase rifles, machine guns and bazookas from Czechoslovakia. When Greek Ambassador Constantine Panayiotakos complained, Makarios insisted he knew nothing about such weapons. All the while, apparently, they were being trucked into the cellar of his archiepiscopal palace. Papadopoulos, responding to this open defiance, requested the archbishop to turn over the weapons to United Nations troops keeping peace on the island...
THIS IS one example of Yevtushenko's social realism that comes off. But nowhere, of course, do we read about life in Russia or for instance, about the invasion into Czechoslovakia. That is the price he pays for his freedom. The delivery of this, purposefully perhaps, was abrasive, softened somewhat by the chorus repeating selected lines. Then they burst into a Hair-like version of the poem. Heard were strains of rock, gospel and jazz--all thrown in for whatever measure the audience might think good. With a solid round of booing and scattered applause, intermission arrived...
...Kadar was in the midst of shooting a movie when the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia scattered his cast and crew. Kadar himself wandered over to America where he did a miserable adaptation of Bernard Malamud's Angel Levin. When the tension in his homeland eased, Kadar returned to Prague, regathered his company, and completed without the slightest visible ripple in continuity a film of extraordinary beauty and complexity...
...union President Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, 78, complained that Poland's broad censorship makes it impossible to deal with contemporary history. Liberal delegates did not attempt to press for total abolition of censorship. They agreed that Communist Party control in Poland must remain unquestioned, and -remembering the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia-tacitly accepted a ban on any works that would offend the Soviet Union. Instead, they set in motion machinery to make it more difficult for conservatives to expel writers from the union, and determined to press for more precise and less arbitrary censorship rules...
Once Yevtushenko wrote splendid, intimate love lyrics. Now many Russian intellectuals regard him as a creature of the Soviet Establishment. Though he bravely protested the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, his appointment to the governing board of the Soviet Union of Writers last year was a sign of renewed official favor. He still radiates what seems like a sincere passion and remains a writer who tries to maintain himself in a state where survival is an art. When Americans ask why he is not in jail, he replies with a smile, "Because I am too cunning." Yet no one knows...