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...this year's Nobel laureate in literature, Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83, was little known outside his homeland. For Czechs, it was a recognition that was overdue: he has long been revered for his insistence on artistic freedom. Even during the bleak days after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, Seifert spoke out forcefully against the policies of the new Soviet-installed regime. For the next decade his writings were repressed, although his poetry is essentially unpolitical. Communist authorities finally relented when they realized that Seifert's poems were circulating widely in underground journals...
...Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took place in Seifert's book-lined living room, where the mementos of a long life include a bust of one of his few heroes, Tomas Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President. Seifert is a small man with questing eyes, his white hair brushed straight back from a careworn face. Speaking through an interpreter, he reflected quietly on his art and his times. Excerpts...
...Czechoslovakia, we consider it an act of culture not to take part in some forms of activity. Maybe this is one of them...
...national security matters." That was true too, after a fashion. According to federal authorities, Koecher did have one client, to whom he told everything he knew about U.S. national security: the Czechoslovak intelligence service. Koecher, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged last week with spying for his native Czechoslovakia...
...Koechers, federal authorities say, were classic moles, emigrants who arrived from Czechoslovakia 19 years ago with the express purpose of infiltrating U.S. intelligence. Karl was allegedly recruited by the Czech agency in 1962, and trained as a spy for two years before being dispatched with his young wife to the U.S. They settled in New York, where Karl, who claims doctorates in physics and philosophy, taught at a local college...