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Another skyjacking carried out by Palestinian guerrillas? Not quite. A few minutes after that scene occurred over Czechoslovakia last week, the Prague-bound BAC One-Eleven jetliner flown by Rumania's TAROM airlines landed at Munich international airport. As the hijackers stepped onto West German soil, they knelt on the runway to say a prayer of thanksgiving. While the airliner was refueling to resume its interrupted flight, another of the passengers, a 31-year-old East Berlin engineer who had had nothing to do with the hijacking, decided on the spur of the moment to capitalize on his good...
During the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Manhattan's WPIX-TV carried what seemed like an enterprising special report for a non-network local channel. WPIX News, as it proclaimed on the air at the time, presented its "Russian authority," Dr. Max J. Putzel, in "an eyewitness account from Moscow." Fact of the matter, according to a charge brought by the Federal Communications Commission last week, was that Max Putzel was a professor of German literature who happened to be a cousin of the then WPIX news producer and who, at the time of the broadcast...
...trainers in 1968 and has maintained the low of trucks and small arms-precisely what the regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece's 15-to 20-year-old American-made M-47 and M48 tanks. The continuing Middle East crisis and he growing Soviet naval presence in he Mediterranean have also influenced Washington toward...
...nearly six years as a correspondent for TIME, Peter Forbath has reported the civil war in Cyprus, the Viet Nam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. So it was with some trepidation that Forbath, now posted to the New York bureau, set out to help report this week's cover story on John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and ardent promoter of the controversial midiskirt. "I'm rediscovering America," says Forbath. "I found the fashion world more alien to me than Africa, Southeast Asia or Eastern...
Newspaper ads in Santiago show a Soviet tank squatting threateningly in the courtyard of Chile's Government House. "They didn't think it could happen in Czechoslovakia, either," the ads warn. A billboard, which depicts a street clogged with barbed wire, carries the message: "Here children used to play." Says another: "If Allende wins, this will be the last election...