Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helsinki accords of 1975, long sought by the USSR, raised international legal barriers to the reunification of Germany and to the restoration of the former German territories ceded to Czechoslovakia. Poland and the USSR. The Soviet search for an enduring solution to the Germany question is also evident in the Soviet proposals to the Vienna talks on the reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe Every Soviet proposal at the Vienna talks from the opening of the negotiations in 1973 to the Warsaw Pact proposal of February, 1983 has sought to establish a 1:1 ratio between Soviet and West...
Attacking the net at every chance yesterday, French Davis Cup star Henri Leconte shocked defending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia yesterday to join second-seeded John McEnroe in the quarterfinals of the $500,000 Tournament of Champions at the famed West Side Tennis Club in New York...
When the U.S. had a nuclear monopoly it may not have always acted in a perfectly virtuous fashion, but it did support and defend freedom throughout the world, and it managed to keep the peace. In the light of the invasions of Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979), the crushing of dissent in Poland, and the unleashing of Cubans upon Angola and Vietnamese upon Cambodia, who would have preferred to see a Soviet nuclear monopoly in the years 1945-49, or would like to see Soviet superiority in the future? Eric Stocked...
...called Britain "an occupied country" because of the U.S. military bases there. Conversely, they applauded when former Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas-Home said, "I am fearful when I see unilateralists sending out signals to a dictatorship that is mobilized with enormous armed forces and practices its doctrine in Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and Poland." Home and Beloff carried the day. showing that, at Oxford at least, pacifism...
...pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains a Vatican official: "It was the same kind of drastic action that the Soviets took when they invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. They did that while the whole world was watching. What would it matter if they were exposed for killing the Pope...