Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really don't know what the Soviet leaders have in mind," observed U.S. Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland. He referred to the fact that the Warsaw Pact forces moved into Czechoslovakia without having prepared a quisling regime or accurately gauged the Czechoslovaks' solidarity. Added Cleveland: "If the Russians couldn't read their close neighbors, the Czechoslovaks, any better than they did in August, how well are they reading us in October...
...posters vary in size and include political slogans, poetry, and cartoons aimed at the Warsaw Pact troops...
...meeting had been twice postponed by disagreement on the agenda, both sides had ample reason for wanting to hold it. In return for rolling back much of the liberalization of his early regime, Dubček is anxious for Russia to begin withdrawing most of the 275,000 Warsaw Pact troops still encamped on Czechoslovak soil. The Kremlin, on the other hand, is far from pleased with the pace of what the Russians call the "normalization" of Czechoslovak life. In particular, they resent the halfhearted censorship that permits most Czechoslovak news media to continue making subtle gibes at Soviet policy...
...issued when they ended, it would seem that it was the Russians who got most of the work done. Dubček not only pledged once again to place Czechoslovakia's press in "the service of socialism," but also gave preliminary approval to the "temporary stationing" of Warsaw Pact troops throughout his country-a concession that would legalize an indefinite occupation. Though Czechoslovak leaders have privately pledged that "no one will be arrested here for his political beliefs," the agreement also calls for a step-up in "efforts to increase the leading role of the Communist Party." Most important...
...began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works...