Word: czechoslovaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cunhal asks rhetorically. "Many places. I was a gypsy. But I never ran away from Portugal." Western intelligence sources say that he spent much of that time in Prague. He was reportedly in the Czechoslovak capital in 1968 when the Russians invaded. He publicly came out in support of the invasion. Cunhal tries hard to look and sound like a moderate, advocating a free press, political parties and elections. But he insists that the power of the landowners and monopolies must be ended. Cunhal also says that all existing agreements, including ties with NATO and U.S. base arrangements, should...
...first the KGB mailed these false letters from Prague, using the return address of the well-known author and psychiatrist Josef Nesvadba. Later they supposedly were sent by a certain Ottokar Gorsky, whose home address was given as 1, Revolution Street, the location of the Czechoslovak airline and tourist offices. But Gorsky's telephone number indicated that he lived in another district-which happens to be the location both of the Soviet embassy and the Czechoslovak secret police...
Divorced. Harold Connolly, 42, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 41, both teachers and veteran Olympic athletes; after 17 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif. The Connollys met as gold medalists (he as a U.S. ham-merthrower, she as a Czechoslovak discus thrower) at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and provided the cold war love story of the year when they married and settled in the U.S. despite the protests of Czechoslovak authorities...
Czechoslovakia. South House has two underground Czech films: One is about the first seven black days of the Soviet invasion in 1968, the other about the funeral of hero Jan Palach. An important discussion with Karel Kovanda, former chairman of the Czechoslovak Student Union, is planned following these significant shorts...
Closely Watched Trains (1967) is one of the most popular of Czechoslovak films, and it should be. Somehow director Miri Menzel manages to maintain a witty ironic tone throughout the picture, even though its subject is the German occupation during World War II. Menzel, who both wrote and directed the film, centers events around a quiet young lad (Vaclav Neckar) who is at a perceptive, uneasy stage in his adolescence. He works at a railway station--the "closely watched trains" were the German munitions trains which had special priority...