Word: czechoslovakian
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...scored 37 goals this season. So, for that matter, are Chicago's two goalies, Glenn Hall and Denis DeJordy, who between them have allowed just 121 goals-lowest total in the league. Yet the man most responsible for the Black Hawks' surge is a pint-sized Czechoslovakian refugee named Stanislav Gvoth...
...Peking, Chinese mobs manhandled Red diplomats, damaged cars and battered at legation compounds in such a xenophobic frenzy that the Russian, Yugoslav, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Mongolian governments all filed stiff diplomatic protests with the Chinese foreign ministry. Not sparing the few non-Communists in Peking, Red Guards also forced a French diplomat to stand for seven hours in Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside...
...United States has begun denying travel visas to Czechoslovakian citizens in retaliation for the Czech government's detention of naturalized U.S. citizen Vladimir J. Kazan-Komarek, owner of the Harvard Travel Service...
...eastern Chinese city of Nanking (pop. 1.5 million), the words and pictures of violence gave way to violence itself. The Czechoslovakian news agency reported that some 500,000 workers had poured into the city, determined to wipe out Mao's local Red Guard contingent and end its harassing techniques. For four days, the two factions fought furiously in the streets. More than 60,000 prisoners were taken by both sides, and many were tortured in the best Chinese fashion. Said the Czechs: "Their fingers, noses and ears were chopped off, their tongues cut out." Japan's Kyodo news...
...been other signs of a thaw. Though the U.S.'s six-year-old trade embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...