Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abroad, the prospect of improved relations with the Soviet Union, a goal that seemed within reach in the mid '60s, has been set back by the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. As a new Administration prepares to take power, Americans are questioning for the first time in a generation their basic role in the world community. Though the signs of plenty abound throughout the Western world, the chronic international money crisis threatens to produce political as well as fiscal instability for millions (see THE WORLD...
...Lochman, professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at the University of Prague, will preach in Memorial Church at 11 a.m. Sunday, and will also speak at Christ Church at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. Lockman, a long-time leader in establishing communication between Christians and Communists in Czechoslovakia, left his country last summer after the Russian invasion...
Russia's sudden occupation and gradually tightening grip on Czechoslovakia have made it clear that freedom is a losing proposition in the country. Yet Czechoslovak leaders and citizens have desperately debated and defined each successive loss to the occupiers, yielding no more of the liberties recently won under Alexander Dubček's reformist regime than absolutely necessary to satisfy Russian demands. Last week the first full-dress debate on Czechoslovakia's prospects took place at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Much of the agenda came straight from Moscow, but that did not stop...
...Communists, whatever their feelings about the invasion of Czechoslovakia, managed to turn a profit by it. But for Poland's aging, doctrinaire Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Russia's tanks and troops performed an invaluable eleventh-hour salvage job. As one who has recently based his career on being Moscow's company man, Gomulka rates especially warm treatment from the Kremlin during times of Communist stress-and the Soviets have never needed him more. As a result, Czechoslovakia has enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years...
...final rites on Aleksei Kosterin, a writer who, only a month before he died, had resigned from the Communist Party rather than face what he considered illegal expulsion for his views. Kosterin had protested a variety of Soviet repressions, including the recent trials of dissidents and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Though that alone might have accounted for the brusqueness of his funeral, Soviet authorities were actually far more concerned with the living than with the dead in the crematorium. For Kosterin's eulogist was his old friend, Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, one of the most outspoken of Russia...