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...stands before audiences with no notes, her only prop a glass of water. With a spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...
...have been compared with Alexander Dubček of Czechoslovakia. 'We all know that Communism with a human face was not permitted to exist there. Could it happen here...
Finally it was the turn of Costantino Rossi, local secretary of the centrist, anti-Communist Social Democratic Party, to question Berlinguer. "We still recall the image of children, women and workers crushed in the streets of Dubček's Prague," said Rossi in a voice edged with emotion, referring to the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. "What guarantees do we have that it could not happen here?" The question struck a raw nerve in the crowd, which came to its feet in a chorus of unruly hoots and whistles and shouts of "Get out of here!" Some angry...
...usually regarded as an archfoe of détente and disarmament. Although his precise role in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia has long been a matter of debate, many East Europeans are persuaded that he played a decisive part. Grechko apparently argued that Czech Party Chief Alexander Dubček's political liberalization program was unacceptable from Moscow's point of view and that only a military intervention would keep the country in the Communist orbit. Even today the bullet-riddled façade of Prague's National Museum is known among Czechs as a "fresco...
Wellesley was handed a rub-a-dub drubbing...