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...Czechoslovaks-and for much of the world-Aug. 21 will live forever in infamy. On that day two years ago, Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the country's promising Springtime of Freedom, which was led by Reformer Alexander Dubček. The first anniversary of that event was marked by three days of violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in Prague and a dozen other cities. Last week, on the second anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the dispirited Czechs did not bother to protest...
...country from the counter-revolutionists by their invasion. Throughout Czechoslovakia, the government called meetings to push that theme. At a parade in Karlovy Vary, celebrating the conclusion of the largest joint Soviet-Czechoslovak military maneuvers ever held, even old President Ludvik Svoboda, once an ally of Dubček's, mouthed a party slogan: "With the Soviet Union forever, and never otherwise...
...Ultras. Under the circumstances, the quiet observance of the anniversary was the wisest course for the Czechoslovaks. Though Husák is a stern hardliner, he is nonetheless determined to prevent the country from sliding back into the reign of police terror that characterized the pre-Dubček days. The peaceful anniversary may help Husák convince the Soviets that he has the situation under control and that his program of "normalization" is almost completed. This would enable him to resist the demands of the Czechoslovak Ultras, who want a return to even stricter political controls and show...
Though Rumania has fashioned a surprisingly independent foreign policy, internally there is no Dubček-style nonsense about freedom of the press or of personal behavior, no rock music, no long-haired youth...