Word: czechoslovakia
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Each sacrifice that was made, each scar, each moment of defiance, no matter how brief or insignificant it seemed, mattered. That was what Dick Hyland tried to say in his writing. It mattered because people in Vietnam and China and Czechoslovakia and South Africa who were of the same frail flesh and blood as us, and wanted the same things we did, were fighting hard every day. They faced an array of power we could only try to imagine. They fought with a courage and a belief in themselves that was distinct from anything we had ever known. They were...
...getting away with a double game. In Western Europe the Soviet Union has been establishing better relations by negotiating the Berlin agreement, while in Eastern Europe the Soviets have carried on a war of nerves in some respects similar to the campaign that preceded the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...declined to enter the tournament. Margaret Court Smith, the defending women's champion, could not come because she is pregnant. Wimbledon Champ Evonne Goolagong, the 20-year-old Australian aborigine sensation, said she had decided to take a rest. Then, in the first round, unseeded Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia eliminated another big name when he upset top-seeded John Newcombe. After that Chris Evert, the 16-year-old schoolgirl who captured the fancy of the fans, got spanked 6-3, 6-2 by top-seeded Billie Jean King in the semifinals. Then the rains came, delaying play and dissipating...
...immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev...
...Welt, and over $500,000 has reportedly been bid by a group of book publishers led by the World Publishing Co. in New York. Gehlen claims to have known about the Berlin Wall before it went up, to have been aware of plans for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia before it occurred, and to have correctly predicted the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Perhaps his most startling assertion is that missing Nazi War Criminal Martin Bormann was really a Soviet agent who died in the Soviet Union less than three years...