Word: czechoslovakia
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...Cold War has been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
...PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--The Communist premier held unprecedented talks with opposition leaders yesterday, then joined bold reformer Alexander Dubcek at a prodemocracy rally before 300,000 elated, flag-waving demonstrators...
Adamec also held his first talks with leading dissident Vaclav Havel and independents in an effort to find a way to end the political crisis and propel Czechoslovakia toward democracy...
...superpowers aren't the only ones who would have to worry. Europe is no stranger to invading German armies. Just ask Poland or Czechoslovakia. Or France. Or Belgium. Even Great Britain can't afford to forget the shelling it suffered at German hands during World...
Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...