Word: czechoslovakias
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...compiled five essays of his own first-person accounts of the East European "refolutions," as he calls them. The first four essays recount the changes in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The fifth attempts to summarize his observations and draw some conclusions from the first four chapters...
...witnessed the formation of the opposition movement firsthand and up-close. His precise analysis of the Czechoslovakian refolution won him acclaim within opposition circles and is equally brilliant in hindsight: "In Poland it took ten years," Ash explains. "In Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks: perhaps in Czechoslovakia it will take ten days...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
...speed its transformation to a market-based economy, Czechoslovakia (pop. 15.6 million) plans to triple the capacity of its overworked telephone system. In June the government chose U S West and Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic to build a cellular-phone network beginning this fall. The U.S. firms will share a 49% stake in the venture...
...skittish, demonstrative blond woman and the brooding, phlegmatic chestnut-haired man have much in common. Both grew up in Czechoslovakia, and both left. Navratilova, who defected in 1975, is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Lendl, who renounced his former homeland more subtly, soon will be. Both struggled to master English, and both now speak it fluently, with a dry, self- belittling wit. Both love all manner of sports: Lendl is a fiend for golf and hockey, while Navratilova is enchanted with skiing, basketball and, as a spectator, American football. Both rose to the top through raw physical power, and both have...