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...involved in De Gaulle's decision. One of them was pride. The West Germans had failed to mask their glee at France's discomfiture. In fact, the French first learned of the devaluation discussions in Bonn through press reports quoting West Germany's Finance Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. After the final session, Strauss implied that the devaluation was a foregone conclusion. "The French government has to decide the extent of it," he said...
Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
...Kremlin colleagues, Dubček accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, who defiantly demanded withdrawal of Russian troops before the U.N. Security Council last month. He was the third reformer of ministerial rank to be sacked (Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Interior Minister Josef Pavel preceded him). Among other leaders forced out: Television Chief Jiři Pelikán, Radio Chief Zdenek Hejzlar and Dr. František Kriegel, popular liberal member of the Presidium. Brezhnev tossed Kriegel out of the Soviet-Czechoslovak meeting in Moscow last month by icily ordering...
...state security men, government prosecutors and party bosses for interviews, came out with documented stories of terror, torture and rigged purge trials. Nothing escaped their attention. Several Prague newspapers sent reporters to interview former political prisoners, published detailed charges that they had been regularly beaten by guards. Interior Minister Josef Pavel, himself a purge victim in 1951, revealed that the police had tried to extract a confession from him by putting an empty pail over his head and beating against it "until I nearly went...