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Ondrej Nepal of Czechoslovakia turned in a flawless free skating performance, taking 5.9's (6.0 is perfect) from all the judges and won the men's title. Patrick Pera of Lyons. Sergei-Chetverukhin of Russia, and Jan Hoffman of East Germany were also ahead of Petkevich...
John Misha Petkevich was all but mathematically eliminated from a shot at the world men; figure skating championship yesterday at Lyons, France. as Ondrej Nepala of Czechoslovakia and Patrick Pera of Lyons battled it out for first...
European champion Ondrej Nepala of Czechoslovakia, whose specialty is the compulsory school figures, which began today, took the lead. Patrick Pera of Lyons was second...
Also important is the fact that for millions of voters, Communism as it is practiced east of the Elbe exerts not a vague attraction but a specific revulsion, periodically reinforced by events like Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Leningrad trials. Moscow, preoccupied with China and a stuttering economy, grudgingly gives the Western European parties greater autonomy than ever. But the Kremlin's influence is still so pervasive that for countless voters, as French Socialist Guy Mollet once remarked, "The Communists are not of the left but of the East." As long as that is true, Western Europe will continue...
Dedijer also remains a dedicated Yugoslav. He was prompted to write The Battle Stalin Lost at the time Russia invaded Czechoslovakia. Among other things, he hoped it would serve as a warning to keep hands off his country. After all, look what happened to Stalin...