Word: czechoslovakias
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...argument. But if they do, it will be because for them unpredictability is a code word for the dangers they see in a larger Germany with a larger role in the economic and political life of Europe, perhaps eventually with its own nuclear arsenal. The same anxiety motivates Czechoslovakia's playwright-President Vaclav Havel, Poland's Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and many politicians in Western Europe. If they accept Bush's idea of NATO uber alles, it will be as a hedge against the resurgence of a malevolent Deutschland. But will the government and citizens of a unified Germany...
...Idealism caused me to do it; I wanted to work for freedom for my own country too. I had thought about it for a long time. Before the invasion of Czechoslovakia I said to myself, "I break with this regime." A few years later I started collaborating with the British...
...days that shook the world, dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was swept out of political detention into the presidency of Czechoslovakia. Last week Havel delivered to a joint meeting of Congress an extraordinary speech about democratic ideals, the rebirth of the human spirit and America's role in the post-cold...
...NATION: Czechoslovakia's President brings down the House -- and Senate -- with a stirring speech...
...flat because it is simply impossible to imagine an America in a position of conflict and vulnerability analogous to Israel's. Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and knows it." Czechoslovakia is a small nation. Judea was. Israel...