Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week. For the Soviets, there was at least one disturbing sign that the Polish disease may be creeping across East-bloc borders. During a government-sponsored peace congress in Prague, a group of 300 youths marched toward Wenceslas Square, the scene of protests after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and shouted, "We want peace! We want freedom!" The demonstration was small by Polish standards, but it was one of the largest public displays of opposition in Czechoslovakia in at least a decade...
...intention to make my home in your country, and I am convinced that if Europe continues for a while to pursue the same course as in the last two decades, many good Europeans will meet again on American soil." Like Brecht, who went from Germany to Czechoslovakia to Austria to Switzerland to France to Denmark before coming to the U.S., most of these good Europeans carried the fate of the wanderer in their blood. They took off their airs as they put on their work clothes, willing to do anything to survive. Composer Paul Dessau was a hired hand...
...Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1968. I was there then to support my friends the writers, the students and statesmen of the Prague Spring. I heard them give thanks, at least, for their few months of freedom as night fell once more upon them; the night of Kafka, where nothing is remembered but nothing is forgiven...
...second place, a cumulative 11 days 14 hr. behind Jeantot, came South African S.J. ("Bertie") Reed, 39, sailing the 15-year-old, 49-ft. sloop Altech Voortrekker, which he pronounced the world's most uncomfortable boat of its size. Next, 65 hr. 35 min. later, came Czechoslovakia's Richard Konkolski, 39, who had refused to quit despite repeated damage to his 44-ft. sloop Nike...
...Wechsler. He turned up in Saigon in 1967 to observe the country's allegedly "free" elections. He was in Chicago in 1968 speaking out against police brutality to protesters outside the Democratic National Convention. He was in Prague in 1969 on the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ("If the Red Army was really sent in at the request of the Czech people," he explained, "the anniversary of their arrival would be quite a festive occasion. I decided to go and see for myself...