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...Expressed remorse for East Germany's role in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...hazards of releasing balloons. As many as 10,000 of them, carrying cards with pro-environmental messages like "Buy recycled paper," will be sent aloft from Munich's main square. The project's organizers hope for a wind from the southwest that will blow the balloons into highly polluted Czechoslovakia...
...Czechoslovakia teachers can describe the 1968 Soviet intervention as an invasion instead of as a "counterrevolution" to which the Soviets "gave brotherly assistance." Teachers in Hungary can openly discuss the 1956 uprising for the first time since the event occurred. At the elite Moscow Higher Party School, which trains apparatchiks to run local and regional party committees, instructors express thoughts that would have been considered heresy only a few years ago. "I tell the Cuban students, 'Castro is great, but he won't last forever -- learn democratic methods,' " says professor Yuri Aksyutin...
...once said he wanted to be Czechoslovakia's President only temporarily, then return to playwriting. But he likes the job and wants a full term. Now that his plays are not suppressed, they get polite reviews; but his leadership is drawing raves...
General Mikhail Moiseyev, the Chief of the General Staff, puts the number of troops pulling out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia this year at 35,000, plus 30,000 family members. About the same number will leave East Germany and Poland in 1990. Eventually, all the approximately half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries may be withdrawn. "We will bring the troops home," said Moiseyev, "but no one has clearly thought what it will cost. Families will find themselves without apartments or work, children without schools...