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...with what is, for him, an uncharacteristically rhetorical conclusion: "The hard-core revolutionary leadership across the nation was so determined to force a confrontation that some kind of major incident had become inevitable." Yet there have been more explosive campus confrontations without gunfire. As Vaclav Koutnik, a professor from Czechoslovakia visiting Kent State, wryly told one of Michener's researchers: "Russia took over my whole country without killing one student. Your soldiers couldn't take over a Plot of grass." It is not enough for Michener to describe the shooting as "an accident, deplorable and tragic." Triggers were...
...Peking back to reality was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the fear that the Brezhnev Doctrine - that the Soviet Union has the right to intervene in any socialist state deviating from its brand of Communism - might be applied to China. War hysteria swept the country after border fighting broke out with the Soviets at the Ussuri River and in Sinkiang...
Range began covering the military while in Germany. He reported on the tense atmosphere in West Berlin following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1969, he interviewed Albert Speer, Hitler's Munitions Minister, who was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and wrote Inside the Third Reich. They struck up an acquaintanceship and still exchange letters...
...regional party director in Gorky before Brezhnev selected him in 1968 to come to Moscow as Central Committee secretary for relations with other ruling Communist parties. In that role, Katushev was instrumental in putting down Alexander Dubcek's "Springtime of Freedom" in Prague and overseeing the "normalization" of Czechoslovakia. Katushev is not brusque and bullying, like Brezhnev, but persistent and demanding. "He is a tough negotiator with a steel-trap mind," reports a Rumanian diplomat who has dealt with...
Despite the successful 1968 suppression of Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe remains potentially explosive, as the December riots in Poland demonstrated (see page 36). A new exchange of denunciations between Peking and Moscow last week indicated that the Sino-Soviet schism remains as gaping as ever. Furthermore, Brezhnev may be having second thoughts about the wisdom of seeking a détente with West Germany (except on conditions that Bonn cannot accept); possibly Moscow does not really want to give up West Germany as a convenient propaganda whipping boy. Significantly, the Soviets toned down their calls for a Conference on European Security that...