Word: czechoslovakia
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...longer seem particularly interested in meeting with Lyndon Johnson before he leaves office, they have let it be known that they are eager to confer with the new U.S. President. A summit meeting would help restore the international standing that the Soviet Union lost with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August. The Russians also want to reach some sort of agreement on limiting the building of anti-missile defenses, if for no other reason than that they recognize that development of the expensive systems will hurt domestic programs in the relatively hard-pressed Soviet Union more than in the affluent...
...Leonid Brezhnev. By invading Czechoslovakia, he showed that the Russian plan for world domination has not been given up for peaceful coexistence; showed De Gaulle that he needs to study Russian history; demonstrated that the purported will of Peter the Great still defines Russian foreign policy; convinced the world that the need for NATO still exists; woke up the U.S. and made most of its citizens grateful for the election of Nixon...
...will not be able to bring its balance of payments into line, and the value of the dollar may be threatened. Though the U.S. payments ran slightly in surplus during the July-through-September quarter, much of this was due to such temporary factors as the turbulence in Czechoslovakia and France, which caused considerable European capital to flee into U.S. stocks, bonds and banks...
...some 50,000 Soviet troops in the country-many Czechoslovaks remain unimpressed and openly rebellious. Some 100,000 students staged nationwide three-day sit-ins to protest some of the executive committee's Russian-imposed decisions. Workers supported the students' defiance with short work stoppages. Members of Czechoslovakia's eleven cultural associations met to declare "more urgently than before" their concern for the "preservation of the humane character of our socialist life...
...Temporary Matter. Legalism has become one of Czechoslovakia's most successful tools of resistance. The National Journalist Union's weekly Reporter, for example, was reprimanded and suspended from publication early last month for its thinly veiled anti-Russian editorials. Its editors promptly demanded a formal court hearing of their case, and that mere threat of publicity proved enough. Reporter was put back on the newsstands. The parliamentary cultural committee added its salute to defiant journalism by adopting a resolution specifically commending the Czechoslovak radio for its dramatic invasion broadcasts. And as always, the spirit of resistance found voice...