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...Peter Forbath, Time-Life Eastern European Bureau Chief recently returned from Czechoslovakia, said last night that the situation in Chicago during the convention seemed more dangerous than that in Prague during the invasion...
...animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath took the measure of the new Czechoslovak mood throughout the country last week, and filed this report...
TIME correspondents covered Czechoslovakia last week from ev ery available vantage point. In Prague itself, Peter Forbath, who has been reporting on the crisis from the beginning, was joined by Friedel Ungeheuer, who hardly had time to unpack after his previous assignment: the Nigerian civil war. London Bureau Chief Jim Bell, an old Eastern Europe hand, toured the tight Austrian-Czech frontier to interview scores of refugees, and Stringers Bob Kroon, Eva Stichova and Christian Schwinner all pitched in at the Vienna bureau. As tension mounted in nearby Rumania, Correspondent Bob Ball reported from Bucharest...
TIME'S Vienna Bureau Chief Peter Forbath, who reported for the earlier cover and is a student of Czechoslovak character and politics, joined up with a massive Russian army convoy of heavy vehicles, field pieces and armored personnel carriers moving down the narrow roads in the foothills of the High Tatra Mountains. At their secluded camp sites in the pine-tree forests, Forbath chatted with Russian soldiers and officers, who talked amiably about their mission and offered him tea. While some other correspondents were running into trouble with both the Russian and the Czechoslovak authorities, Forbath was not prevented...
...their travels throughout Czechoslovakia in recent weeks, TIME'S correspondents have been impressed by the new spirit of the country and the people. "I just took off," cabled Forbath, "reporting to no authority, dropping in anywhere. The people were warm, open, unafraid, though I was a capitalistic journalist whom most people had been taught for two decades to regard as little better than a Western spy." This time, being from the West was something of an advantage, and Forbath was happy to be offered not only tea by the Russians but the clear, potent and ever-present slivovice that...