Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany shortly after World War II, Tinnin watched the growing isolation of the citizens of East Germany. Muson studied Marxism at Harvard. Re searcher Mary McConachie, considered something of a Czechoslovakia specialist for THE WORLD section, polished her command of the Czech lan guage while working as press secretary in Prague for the British Foreign Service from 1957 to 1959. She remembers the sadness of a gracious people afraid to be caught talking to a Westerner. "They thought I was a spy," Mary says, "simply because I had taken the trouble to learn their language...
...Eugene McCarthy and Georgia's Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were warned not to shoot pictures through open windows lest they be mistaken for snipers...
...streets, conversation between the people and the troops suddenly ceased. Free radio broadcasts and leaf lets advised that the Soviet press was printing photos of Czechoslovaks and Russians talking in Prague as proof that a warm reception was being given the troops. Any Czech caught speaking to the soldiers, these messages said, would be branded a traitor. Though the people had little notion of the progress of the Moscow negotiations, they knew that their fate hung on them. Nearly 15,000 of them lined the route from Ruzyne airport to the city, waiting in vain some four hours to welcome...
...Pravda's massive editorial sounding the warning on the invasion made it clear that the Kremlin wants to be assured of several things before it withdraws its army. The Russians insist that the old-line cad res be kept in their jobs in the party and government. They want press freedoms curtailed. They want guarantees that Czechoslovakia's economy will remain oriented toward the Soviet bloc...
...their estimation, to outweigh all the dangerous consequences of invasion. The Kremlin leaders must have come to the conclusion that Czechoslovakia's experiment would sooner or later prove fatal to the system that they had so carefully constructed since World War II. Freedom of speech and of the press, the right of free assembly, criticism both from within the party and political clubs outside it-all threatened to un dermine and eventually destroy Eastern European Communism. Poland, Hungary, East Germany were all susceptible to the Czechoslovak ex ample and in danger of eventually going their own ways...