Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME correspondents covered Czechoslovakia last week from ev ery available vantage point. In Prague itself, Peter Forbath, who has been reporting on the crisis from the beginning, was joined by Friedel Ungeheuer, who hardly had time to unpack after his previous assignment: the Nigerian civil war. London Bureau Chief Jim Bell, an old Eastern Europe hand, toured the tight Austrian-Czech frontier to interview scores of refugees, and Stringers Bob Kroon, Eva Stichova and Christian Schwinner all pitched in at the Vienna bureau. As tension mounted in nearby Rumania, Correspondent Bob Ball reported from Bucharest...
...worked on the stories in New York brought to them a personal understanding. As a university student in West Germany shortly after World War II, Tinnin watched the growing isolation of the citizens of East Germany. Muson studied Marxism at Harvard. Re searcher Mary McConachie, considered something of a Czechoslovakia specialist for THE WORLD section, polished her command of the Czech lan guage while working as press secretary in Prague for the British Foreign Service from 1957 to 1959. She remembers the sadness of a gracious people afraid to be caught talking to a Westerner. "They thought...
...With only 18 years of real independence, Czechoslovakia must be more a spirit than a nation. But what a spirit! Again these gallant peoples have gone to the mat for the cause of a freedom they may never enjoy. Dubcek must have known that the Soviets would never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come...
...tragedy in Prague. A truly democratic left should bring its weight to bear equally against the wrongs of the right and the extreme left. Perhaps it is surprising to learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia. I can only hope that Czechoslovakia's progress toward realizing a blend of Communist economics with humanist politics will not perish. Long live a free Czechoslovakia...
...getting more like them") had become one of the dubiously hopeful cliches of the day. In one brutal night's work, Moscow undercut, if it did not erase, all such assumptions. For all the changes, the Soviet Union still could not bear the contagion of freedom from Czechoslovakia spreading into other Eastern European countries and into Russia itself (see THE WORLD...