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Last November student leader Martin Mejstrik and dissident poet Vaclav Havel sat together negotiating with the then Communist government of Czechoslovakia...
Yesterday, Havel was performing his duties as President of Czechoslovakia and Mejstrik was at Harvard, meeting with other leaders of the international student movement for democracy...
Such tensions are mild compared with those in Romania and Czechoslovakia, where new governments have given students a strong voice in how their universities are run. Hundreds of professors have been fired, some because they were Communist Party loyalists, others because students deemed them incompetent or uninspiring. At Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, students have , dismissed all but two of their 39 instructors. They have hired an outspoken new rector: Milan Knizak, 50, a long-haired multimedia artist who sports three earrings in each ear. Knizak has rejected the school's slogan, which said the purpose...
Soviet newspapers and magazines are publishing details about life in the U.S.S.R. that once would have crowned a CIA officer's career. Czechoslovakia's President, Vaclav Havel, discloses how much Semtex, a lethal plastic explosive, Prague has sold to Libya over the years (1,000 tons), while East Germany disbands its dreaded secret police. Soviet and other East bloc officials are still trying to sponge up information from the West, but they have widened their scope and deepened their activities; as Moscow tries to pump up perestroika with the technology and expertise of the West, its agents are busier than...
Even as Moscow attempts a public change of face, it is also trying to preserve as much of its espionage empire as possible. The Soviet Union once could count on East Germany to penetrate West Germany, Czechoslovakia to target military and industrial sources in the West, and Bulgaria to carry out assassinations. Now, however, the KGB's symbiotic relationship with Warsaw Pact agencies is threatened by reformist governments in the region. Though these countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former...