Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser's new military might thundered and rumbled past the admiring eyes of dignitaries from other Arab countries. It was a far cry, at least in appearance, from the ill-equipped army the Israelis had routed only eight years before. There were 100 Russian armored troop carriers, 32 Czech antitank guns, 48 Czech antiaircraft guns, 14 Czech heavy caliber guns, 73 Russian medium tanks, French light tanks and howitzers, British 25-pounders and Centurion tanks. Bringing up the rear were 28 monstrous Stalin tanks with huge guns poking out of long, beetle-like turrets. Overhead, Russian MIGs screamed past...
...down to college-boy pranks. But it was unsettling to see university students in Prague and Bratislava using the newly revived May festivities this year to lampoon the Communist regime-by such means as parading a trussed-up student bearing the sign ACADEMIC FREEDOM. Even more disturbing, Czech students were showing themselves heady with ideas not found in their government -approved textbooks: they began organizing groups, holding meetings, making demands of the Minister of Education. Before the authorities knew what was happening, Prague students had drawn up several resolutions demanding "democratization of public life" and other far-reaching reforms-retrial...
Spreading Trouble. Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders took alarm. Unlike Poland's top leaders, who seem to share some of the current ideological ferment of their countrymen, Czech Reds have been trying to squash any new thoughts among their people. Czech newspapers refused to print the students' resolutions, and the students gave the regime a lesson in enterprise: they fired off copies by air taxi and motorcycle to other Czech university towns, where the resolutions were widely circulated and discussed. Someone sent a copy to Radio Free Europe, and soon the full text was being beamed...
...entry-Kunsan, Inchon and Pusan-were told to pack up their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy to be rid of them...
...visited Yugoslavia with B. & K., who took him along instead of Molotov. A month later he visited Egypt, where in private talk with Nasser he presumably laid the foundation for the Czech arms deal...