Word: czechoslovakia
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...Israel that the commandos want to "liberate" has a population of 90% Jews and 10% Arabs. One is strongly reminded of the recent liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union...
...still faced a perilous confrontation in the Middle East. In August, five years to the month after Khrushchev and Kennedy concluded the test-ban treaty, the long and delicate approach to a Soviet-American detente was reversed by Moscow's heavy-handed repression of a progressive regime in Czechoslovakia. For a few months it seemed as if Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak party boss, might succeed in his breathtaking attempt to defy Moscow and build a humane, relatively liberal and more efficient Marxist regime in his country; the Soviet tanks that ended this attempt for the time being...
...more formal arenas of politics, France's opposition parties have failed to exploit the Gaullist shortcomings. Reduced by the Gaullist landslide to numerical insignificance in the National Assembly, the parties have turned inward on themselves instead of ganging up on the Gaullists. Split over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself than...
Within hours of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia last August, the Western broadcasts that had boomed through so clearly for half a decade were once again obscured by artificial static that overrode many broadcasts. The resumption of jamming was obviously an attempt to muffle the world's outcry against the invasion by Soviet troops, and it represented no small effort. The Soviets switched back on all their coldwar jamming devices, which some experts number in the hundreds. They consistently tried to blank out the Voice of America, the BBC and West Germany's Deutsche Welle, and at various...
...time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, both the Voice of America and the BBC naturally devoted extra air time to news and comment. Much of the comment expressed outrage and dismay, some from Communist papers around the world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major...