Word: czechoslovaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this one grand gesture of power, the skyjacker shows his contempt for the establishment." Any rational political refugee who wanted to get to Cuba could do so without great difficulty on one of the six airlines that fly there regularly: Mexicana, Iberia, Air Canada, Soviet Russia's Aeroflot, Czechoslovak Airlines, and Cubana...
...evening newspaper, warned that "the new military demonstration is directed at increasing tension in Europe." What bothers the Soviets most of all is that the war game will be held in Bavaria at the NATO maneuver site of Grafenwöhr -located only 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border...
Last week the Communist Party Presidium issued a warning to the Czechoslovak people admonishing them to refrain from all forms of dissent against the regime or the Soviet occupiers. Otherwise, as Dubček declared, "The party will impose inevitable measures. They might seem undemocratic, but they will ensure that this republic is not driven by anarchistic tendencies." Not surprisingly, Dubček's popularity has declined sharply in Czechoslovakia. In fact, only 41 months after their tanks crashed into Czechoslovakia, the Soviets have, in effect, succeeded in destroying not only the liberal reforms but the reformer as well...
Preference for Realists. The initial Czechoslovak reaction to federalization was favorable. In a spontaneous outburst of regional pride, Czechs paraded through the snowy streets of Prague, waving the red and white flag of their native province of Bohemia. Simultaneously, Slovak patriots hoisted the white-blue-red banner of Slovakia over the battlements of the hilltop castle that frowns down on Bratislava, the old provincial capital of Slovakia...
...pave the way for the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Rapacki's recent position was weakened not only by refusing to go along with the campaign against Jews, which other leaders, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, joined only reluctantly, but also by opposing Poland's role in the Czechoslovak invasion...