Word: czechoslovakias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Worse, they say, officers laboring under recruit-or-perish pressure tend to sign up large numbers of marginal sources. "People go out and recruit assets that don't produce," says Lynn Larkin, who spent eight years as a CIA case officer covering Czechoslovakia and Western Europe. As an unmarried woman, Larkin says she was pressured by her station chief to stop dating a fellow American, even though he had a security clearance. She resigned in disgust 18 months ago, after a married Directorate executive invited her to lunch, announced, "I can help your career if you stick with...
...needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
Evoking what some see as shades of Adolf Hitler's rhetoric regarding Germans living in Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Moralist though he is, perfect Havel is not. In the first elections held in free Czechoslovakia, Havel intimidated opposing Communist candidates from running for president by threatening to expose their secret police files. In attempting to exploit the old regime, Havel violated the spirit of the new democratic nation...