Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncing Message. The wind carried the balloons at 30 m.p.h. high over a line of low, dark hills on the horizon, where lay the Czech border. At 30,000 feet, the rubber balloons exploded, releasing thousands of leaflets. Another type of balloon, pillow-shaped, of glistening, translucent polyethylene, slowly oozed hydrogen through the plastic pores and sank to earth; it would give a ghostly effect as it bounced along the ground over hedges or lodged against walls and trees. On it, in five-inch letters, was printed the single word svoboda (Czech for "freedom"). Inside were more leaflets...
...back of each leaflet were listed wave lengths and schedules of major free-world stations broadcasting to Czechoslovakia. From Munich, Radio Free Europe urged Czech students, postmen, housewives, civil servants to pick up the leaflets and distribute them as widely as possible...
...sample of the "espionage" charged by the prosecution, State cited some of Oatis' testimony regarding former Czech Minister Vladimir Clementis, whose disappearance last winter (he was secretly arrested) was a Page One news story...
...Because they could speak Czech...
...carefully was the trial set to railroad Oatis, observers reported, that a well-rehearsed court translator once got ahead of the prosecution witness whose words he was interpreting. This week the Czechs spurned the State Department's request for the immediate release of Oatis. But State had still made no move of reprisal against imports from Czechoslovakia, or Czech correspondents and diplomatic officials...