Word: czechoslovakia
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...already gone home. But some 75,000 Soviet troops will remain stationed along a central line that virtually cuts the country in half, and 60 guns still ring Prague. The one major concession that the Soviets made in the treaty governing the "temporary" stationing of their troops in Czechoslovakia carried an ominous loophole. The status-of-forces clause in the treaty provided that Czechoslovak law should apply to occupying soldiers as well as citizens. But when "higher interests" were involved, previous dictates made clear, Moscow's orders would prevail...
...crime for Czechoslovaks to visit the grave of Thomas Masaryk, who founded their republic 50 years ago this week. But it is at least an act of courage. Last week, in advance of Czechoslovakia's anniversary celebrations, security agents at the graveside conspicuously photographed each pilgrim. Everywhere, Czechoslovaks are surrounded by a poised apparatus of repression. They are settling into a mood of resignation, withdrawing back into their private lives, abandoning politics once more to the politicians...
...until three months after the 1956 uprising was crushed, and did not peak until six months after the event. Fearing that possibility, some 600 scientists have left the country, and last week an airlift began bringing the first Czechoslovak refugees from Vienna to the U.S. They are mostly from Czechoslovakia's intellectual elite. A factory hand summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks who remain: "We will work even less than before; we will be the greatest country of nonworkers." All too evidently, the country was slipping back from its luminous "spring" (as the Czechoslovaks call their...
...leaders of the Soviet Union undoubtedly knew that their invasion of Czechoslovakia would anger and dismay not only Moscow's enemies, but many of its friends around the world. The Russians doubtlessly also calculated that the storm of protest by other Communist parties would soon subside, just as it did after Hungary in 1956. After all, the tradition of loyalty to the "Motherland of the Revolution" is long, emotional and prudent. As the world's second greatest power, Russia can provide better than anyone else the money, arms and technical aid that struggling Communists in other countries need...
...indictment also charged that the pair had smuggled another East German from Czechoslovakia to Austria earlier in August...