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...Czech medical students and two of their professors from Charles University in Prague were visiting Harvard until today. On Friday, 34 Soviet students from the Second Moscow Pirogov Medical School arrived with two faculty members. While this is the third year that Soviet students have come to Harvard, it is the first visit by the Czechs...
Hupert said that he had been inspired by a letter the Czech students sent the Medical School. "They basically said. 'We need help. We've been stagnant for forty years,'" Hupert said...
Twenty-two-year-old Jan Vaculik, one of the Czech students, said he was impressed by the Medical School's tutorials, a central part of the school's "New Pathway" curriculum...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...
...Wenceslas Square, Bush's evocative words raised a great roar: "There are no leaves on the trees, and yet it is Prague spring. There are no flowers in bloom, and yet it is Prague spring." In the huge crowd, vendors sold copies of the U.S. Constitution for 8 Czech crowns (30 cents) each...