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Though they are out of sight, the mere presence of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak soil has created a palpable sense of oppression. Husák's nonstop propaganda mill, justifying the troops as well as the invasion itself, has virtually deadened Czechoslovak sensibilities. The result, reports Aikman, is that most of the country has settled into an apathetic limbo. After 1968, the new regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman...
Director Robert (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) juggles sever al subplots that are sometimes amusing but do nothing for the film's cohesiveness. The main one involves Rochefort's three colleagues in adultery - a sort of Gallic answer to John Cassavetes' Hus bands. Their best scene: on a prank, one of them wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant by flailing about disguised as a blind man. Then, after further appalling on lookers by lurching off into the night be hind the wheel of a car, he murmurs to his pals, "It was more...
...Russia's client states, the Gierek regime has been attacked by Warsaw intellectuals for the "tortures and abuses" of people arrested after last summer's food riots. Perhaps the most flagrant violator of the Helsinki spirit is Czechoslovakia, where the grimly totalitarian government of Gustáv Husák has begun a new assault on dissidence and intellectual freedom...
...interrogated nonstop for as long as 14 hours and then released-only to have the intimidating procedure repeated in a day or so. Their "crime": being among the more than 300 Czechoslovaks who have signed Charter 77, a 3,000-word petition that calls upon Communist Party Boss Gustav Husák's repressive regime to live up to the pledges it made at Helsinki...
...already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain, she stopped to wonder: "Is this punishment for living life the way I wanted and not the way others...