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When Lusia returned from a visit to the West, her information on Chernobyl shook me. Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland and Hungary had demanded an explanation from Soviet authorities for the high levels of radiation throughout Europe. Poles were given iodine tablets to speed the elimination of radioactive iodine from their systems -- which raised the question of what was being done in the U.S.S.R., where the level of radioactivity was much greater. In the Ukraine and Belorussia, pregnant women were advised to have abortions. My initial optimism was completely dispelled. It was important to decide in my own mind what should...
...might prevent war. I pointed out that Reflections warned against exactly the kind of approach he was taking, in which life-and-death decisions are made by people who have usurped power (and privilege) without accepting the checks of free opinion and open debate. I raised the issue of Czechoslovakia: Was there any guarantee against Soviet intervention? Slavsky said that had been ruled out by the Central Committee, provided there was no overt counterrevolutionary violence, as occurred in Hungary...
...will NATO defend itself against...Havel's Czechoslovakia?" Dienstbier asked...
Dienstbier quoted Czech President Vaclav Havel's belief that "America can best help [Czechoslovakia] by helping the USSR...
Poland has journalist Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Prime Minister. Czechoslovakia has playwright Vaclav Havel as President. Last week Hungary also put a writer at the helm. The parliament elected Arpad Goencz, an English translator and former dissident who spent six years in jail after the 1956 revolution, as the country's new interim and largely ceremonial President...