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Russia's sudden occupation and gradually tightening grip on Czechoslovakia have made it clear that freedom is a losing proposition in the country. Yet Czechoslovak leaders and citizens have desperately debated and defined each successive loss to the occupiers, yielding no more of the liberties recently won under Alexander Dubček's reformist regime than absolutely necessary to satisfy Russian demands. Last week the first full-dress debate on Czechoslovakia's prospects took place at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Much of the agenda came straight from Moscow, but that did not stop...
...white community is constantly siphoning money out of the black ghetto, but rarely reinvests it there" Jackson said. "Blacks must reverse this cycle, we must break the grip of the vise that is killing...
Despite the obvious risks, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences defiantly challenged the Brezhnev Doctrine in a reply to Soviet allegations that the country had been in the grip of a counterrevolution. The Soviets made the charge in a pamphlet now being distributed in Czechoslovakia. Dismissing the Soviet arguments as "inventions" and "schoolboy sins against logic," the academy, which is composed of the country's leading intellectual figures, warned against the Soviet Union's unwillingness to allow Communism to accommodate to change. Said the academy: "The metaphysical conception of Socialism as a perfect system leads logically to the conclusion...
Kremlin Dictation. As unlikely as it seemed, Kosygin may actually have sought to reassure the scrupulously neutral Finns. But in the long run, the only way that Russia can allay the worries of the Finns, or of anyone else, is to loosen its grip on Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately, the Soviets are in the process of tightening it. Last week, after First Party Secretary Alexander Dubček and two fellow leaders returned from another session in the Kremlin, there were disturbing reports from Prague. "This time the Kremlin leaders did not even bother to debate any point," said a shaken Czechoslovak...
...main factors were behind the coup. For one thing, even though the Guard had supported him during the election, Arias reawakened the officers' longstanding animosity by trying to weaken the Guard's grip on the country's political life. He threatened to transfer, and in one case exile, a number of the leading officers. In addition, after he won a landslide victory over former Finance Minister David Samudio, Arias outraged many Panamanians by undertaking a series of unsavory political maneuvers designed to give his followers a majority in the 42-seat National Assembly...