Word: kohout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summit drew closer, all Eastern Europe was edgy-and unsure of exactly what lay ahead. Despite their studied nonchalance, the Czechoslovak people pressed their leaders hard not to compromise. Thousands of them lined up to sign copies of a manifesto, written by Playwright Pavel Kohout and printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party...
RICHARD J. KOHOUT Major, U.S.A.F. Eglin A.F.B...