Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During spring break, the 12 undergraduates, two graduate students and one Harvard professor traveled to Moscow, Kiev and Lenningrad in the USSR and Prague in Czechoslovakia. A group of 12 Soviet students will come to the United States this fall. Their travels during the second part of this year's program will include visits to New York, Boston and Washington...
...make a five-day visit to Yugoslavia, a nation with some of Eastern Europe's bitterest tribal rivalries. Yet even as the Soviet leader was seeking to keep the lid on at home, outbreaks of turbulence erupted in three of the Soviet-dominated states of Eastern Europe. In Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, Communist authorities last week moved to stamp out separate shows of popular defiance. Though these outbreaks involved political rather than ethnic grievances, both forms of unrest may have been prompted in part by the spirit of political openness and reform that Gorbachev has promoted...
...Czechoslovakia's hard-line regime was confronted with a peaceful but highly unusual protest over the country's repression of religious freedoms. To make their point, 10,000 Roman Catholics gathered at St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague's Hradcany district for a special Mass celebrated by Primate Franticek Cardinal Tomacek, 88. Police did not interfere, but they had previously arrested 13 dissidents to prevent their participation...
...Then came the scores and the boos. Thomas' marks for technical merit were high, but her grades for artistic presentation were much lower than those for Katarina Witt. Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas' rival. "We don't want this political nonsense," he said. "We just want the best skater...
...know about you, but I'm kinda tired right now," ABC's Jim McKay was saying. There was a smile of dazed satiety on his face after a big night of Olympics action, highlighted by the U.S.-Czechoslovakia hockey game. But gosh, Jim, it was only Monday. Still to come were two more dramatic hockey games, the skating artistry of "little Katya" and the battle of the Brians. Not to mention, back in the real world, the grudge match between Bob Dole and George Bush and the scramble among Democratic presidential hopefuls to survive New Hampshire. Talk about tired...