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Word: dienstbier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dienstbier noted that in the last national elections 90 percent of the Czech people voted while too few people in the United States vote...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Czech Officials Ask For U.S. Financial Aid | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

Introducing Dienstbier as a fellow journalist, Marvin Kalb director of the Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, began by saying that freedom is something everyone shares...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Czech Officials Ask For U.S. Financial Aid | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

Although the "bad guys" who oppressed Czechoslovakia for 45 years are gone, Dienstbier said some Czechs have a simple mentality that now the "good guys" are going to make things right. The people themselves are "not so interested in taking in their hands the reins," he said...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Czech Officials Ask For U.S. Financial Aid | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...Dienstbier acknowledged the need to "send people abroad to learn these new things" but said Czechoslovakian journalists are much more eager to report the truth than they had been before the fall of communism...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Czech Officials Ask For U.S. Financial Aid | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...Middle East crisis was mentioned as an element that is straining the Eastern European economies. "We are in danger to be strangled by oil prices and a very bad economic situation," Dienstbier warned a capacity crowd at a panel discussion about "Freedom in Czechoslovakia...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Czech Officials Ask For U.S. Financial Aid | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

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