Word: czechoslovakia
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...took 87% of the vote, becoming the republic's first democratically elected president, he was regarded as a modern-day St. George who had defeated the dragon of Soviet imperialism. Given Gamsakhurdia's reputation as a distinguished literary scholar and his activism on behalf of human rights, comparisons with Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel did not seem too much of a stretch...
NATO was conceived to deter armored columns from the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and East Germany (remember East Germany?) from rolling to the English Channel. The alliance has survived the victory of the West and the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact. But unless it can help defuse disasters like the one now destroying Yugoslavia and threatening peace throughout southern Europe, NATO too will end in retirement. Thinking about what will take its place has barely begun...
...front-line Central European democracies, meanwhile, argued with some trepidation that bringing them under the Western wing was of the highest importance. The European Community seemed to agree, offering to step up negotiations toward admitting Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as associate members...
...plane then departed for Czechoslovakia, taking the place of a scheduled Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight that was aborted at the last minute by prearrangement. The 707's radar transponder was altered to beep out the code of a commercial airliner, which enabled the plane to overfly several countries without arousing suspicion. "From Czechoslovakia the 707 flew to the U.S.," said the informant, insisting that none of the black-unit workers had any knowledge of what was in the heavy wooden crates. "It could have been gold. It could have been drugs. It could have been guns. We dealt...
What worries many is that the spectacle of violent disintegration in one multi-ethnic federation may increase the pressure for separatism in other amalgams, like Czechoslovakia, as well as the Soviet Union's Baltic republics. That is one reason Moscow last week backed "the unity and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia...