Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close, I could look at him eye to eye." Swooned another: "My heart was thumping!" The object of their affection, though, was not the U2 band or Television Star Harry Hamlin. It was none other than Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was making his first official visit to Czechoslovakia...
...leader and his wife Raisa. Similarly warm groups met them as they dashed through a hectic schedule -- talks with officials, visits to the opera and a Soviet war memorial, and campaign-like walkabouts featuring handshaking, chatting and baby kissing. After two days in Prague, Gorbachev went on to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia's second largest city and the capital of Slovakia...
Those who probably took the dimmest view of the trip were Czechoslovakia's Communist Party officials. Under their heavy hands, the Prague Spring of 1968 quickly gave way to sullen winter as the country became one of the most rigidly orthodox in the East bloc. Party Leader Gustav Husak, 74, installed by former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as Dubcek's replacement, has symbolized the backward-looking government's unimaginative face...
Gorbachev said during a visit to Czechoslovakia last week that the Soviets would be willing to discuss reductions in tactical, or short-range, nuclear weapons apart from negotiations on eliminating mediumrange missiles from Europe. Washington says the Soviet advantage in tactical missiles...
...Soviet Union may have ushered in its era of openness, but Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities seem bent on proving that it is not contagious. In Prague five leaders of the independent cultural organization known as the Jazz Section were convicted last week of illegally continuing to distribute music, newsletters and art books...