Word: czechoslovaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urgent SOS that echoed through a Prague street last week was banged out on the horn of a locked car by Pavel Kohout, the internationally acclaimed playwright, and his wife Jelena. Surrounding them were Czechoslovak policemen, with revolvers drawn. Having futilely pulled on the handle, the angry police pried open the door with a crowbar and dragged out the frightened couple. After beating Pavel, police shoved the playwright and his wife into a van and drove off to the Ruzyně detention center just outside the capital...
...assault on Kohout, author of such plays as Poor Murderer and The Third Sister, was the most dramatic incident in a crackdown campaign against dissidents ordered by Czechoslovak authorities. Last week more than a dozen intellectuals and former party leaders were taken to Ruzyně, interrogated nonstop for as long as 14 hours and then released-only to have the intimidating procedure repeated in a day or so. Their "crime": being among the more than 300 Czechoslovaks who have signed Charter 77, a 3,000-word petition that calls upon Communist Party Boss Gustav Husák's repressive...
...Communists took over Poland in 1945. A graduate of Montreal's McGill University, Zbig earned his doctorate in government at Harvard, then taught political science there from 1953 to 1960. In the meantime, he became a U.S. citizen and married Emilie ("Muska") Benes, grandniece of Eduard Benes, the Czechoslovak President who was forced out of office after the 1948 Communist putsch. After leaving Harvard, Brzezinski went to Columbia, where he now heads the Research Institute on International Change...
Even the use of the word "democracy" in the draft statement was cause for contention. As one high-level Italian Communist explained to TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel: "How could [Italian Party Chief] Enrico Berlinguer sign a statement on democracy that [Czechoslovak President] Gustav Husak could also sign?" The red-leather-bound final declaration, placed before each delegate at the opening of the two-day conference, affirmed the "complete independence" of each party "in accordance with the socio-economic conditions and specific national features prevailing in the country concerned...
...Bonn government last week shifted the proposed site of the meeting from Hamburg to southern Bavaria. Kissinger and his 100-member retinue will be ensconced at the Hotel Sonnenhof in the picturesque village of Grafenau (pop. 4,000), deep in the Bayerischer Wald and about 13 miles from the Czechoslovak border. Vorster's entourage will be provided rooms in another Hotel Sonnenhof, in the equally colorful village of Bodenmais, about 30 miles away. The Secretary and the Prime Minister will shuttle between the villages, either by car or helicopter...