Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what about Russian troops still stationed in Hungary? Perhaps you could say Soviet divisions in East Germany, Poland or Czechoslovakia are part of the Warsaw Pact defense system-but Hungary is far removed from the East-West invasion routes, yet Soviet troops remain there unchallenged and unquestioned...
Died. Josef Cardinal Beran, 80, exiled archbishop of Prague, whose life symbolized the Catholic church's struggles in Eastern Europe; of lung cancer; in Rome. Beran was appointed arch bishop of Prague in 1946 and ran head on into the Communists during their 1948 takeover of Czechoslovakia. For publicly protesting the infringement of religious freedom, he was shorn of power, imprisoned for 14 years, and eventually sent into exile. His death occurred during negotiations that might have led to his return to the country he loved...
Despite his age, Grigorenko cedes nothing to his associates in his distaste for autarchy or disdain for government attempts to muzzle dissent. When his old army comrades were about to invade Czechoslovakia, Grigorenko paid a call at the Czechoslovak embassy to advertise his approval of the Dubček liberalization program. At the funeral of Writer Aleksei Kosterin (TIME, Nov. 22), a longtime friend, he turned his eulogy at Moscow's crematory hall into an eloquent attack on "totalitarianism that hides behind the master of so-called Soviet democracy...
...courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from the Atlantic to the Urals." But his policy of détente with the U.S.S.R. suffered a violent setback when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, and French critics of NATO suddenly fell silent. Rapprochement was further advanced by Richard Nixon's European trip in February, which he used to affirm both his personal admiration for the general and the continuing U.S. friendship for France...
...holiday, both seasonal and pagan, May Day goes back thousands of years. Some remnants of this ancient past still survive: on May Day, French gentlemen give their ladies bouquets of lilies of the valley. In Greece, doors and balconies are decked with floral wreaths. In Czechoslovakia, traditional vows of love are exchanged...