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Vaculik said he did not know exactly how the visit would affect medical education in Czechoslovakia, but he said "it will definitely have an influence on our system...
...difficult to get the program funded, since Czechoslovakia has no convertible currency or foreign exchange, Eisenberg said. Eventually, the Medical School students collected enough money, thanks in large part to a grant from a Medical School foundation that supports international diplomacy through medicine, he said...
...bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten." --Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...
...Warsaw Pact. Governments there do not seriously expect Moscow to attempt to reduce them to satellites once again, but they are nervously aware that the Soviet army has not yet gone home. There are 360,000 Soviet troops in Germany, 50,000 in Poland, 15,000 in Czechoslovakia and 20,000 in Hungary. "They might decide to 'reinforce' them," frets a senior Hungarian diplomat. Last week Warsaw anxiously asked Moscow to pull its forces out by the end of this year, but the Kremlin balked, saying the forces must remain until its troops in Germany have returned home. The Czechoslovak...
Proponents of war call dealing appeasement. Walzer says that it we make concessions, "we make ourselves complicitous in the aggression--and in all the further aggressive behavior that our action encourages, as the British and French were complicitous in the conquest of Czechoslovakia after Munich...