Word: czechoslovakia
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...West Germans, it will lead shortly to similar treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia. Because Bonn recognizes that détente in Central Europe means nothing without détente in Berlin, Brandt's government is insisting on progress in the Berlin talks. The agreement holds promise of a vast new market opening to the East. Today, with Japanese exports rising, and with the growth of protectionist tendencies in the U.S., the Communist markets are an attractive possibility...
...false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots in Eastern Europe, Communism may face greater risks than the West by the creation of a more relaxed atmosphere...
...Nikita Khrushchev's attacks on the Finns in 1959 for including anti-Soviet politicians in their Cabinet-Kekkonen does indeed go to great pains to avoid antagonizing the Russians. His government deplored the U.S. invasion of Cambodia but made no mention of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It torpedoed Nordek, the proposed Scandinavian common market, mainly because the Soviets were suspicious of it. Even domestic politics reflects this concern. In Finland's March elections, the Conservatives finished in second place (out of eight parties). But when a five-party coalition was finally formed last week with longtime Foreign...
...rage by storming to the rostrum and ripping Najia's report to shreds. The assembly's final report to the U.N. did, however, make a grudging attempt at impartiality: it balanced the demand for U.S. withdrawal from Indochina with a suggestion that the Soviets should lay off Czechoslovakia...
Sovereignty was indeed the heart of the matter and the chief reason for the fact that the friendship pact, which supersedes a 20-year treaty begun in 1948. remained unsigned for two years. At first the Rumanians held off in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Later it was the Soviets who delayed, partly to express their displeasure over Nixon's visit but more importantly to try to persuade the Rumanians to accept a new paragraph recognizing the Brezhnev Doctrine, which justifies Soviet intervention anywhere in the "socialist commonwealth." Ceausescu rightly saw the doctrine as a threat...