Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With only 18 years of real independence, Czechoslovakia must be more a spirit than a nation. But what a spirit! Again these gallant peoples have gone to the mat for the cause of a freedom they may never enjoy. Dubcek must have known that the Soviets would never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come...
...Viet Nam, a legitimate?though dependent?government in Saigon requested U.S. assistance and continues to do so. The U.S. originally entered on a very small scale and only after fighting had already started. South Viet Nam was under very real attack from within and without. These circum stances hardly duplicate those in Czechoslovakia, quite apart from the fact that U.S. and Russian aims in the world are fundamentally and philosophically different. To establish a real parallel with Soviet behavior, one would have to imagine France's being taken over through a Communist coup and renouncing all its military and economic...
...agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions-is simply to sabotage one of the world's few self-governing societies...
...excuses for the military action. In a 13,000-word editorial, Pravda offered detailed criticism of the behavior of the leading Prague progressives, describing Dubcek as a "betrayer of Communist ideals." Pravda was particularly severe in condemning the plans for a party purge; it spoke of "an atmosphere of real pogrom and moral execution." After the takeover, Tass even claimed that the secret party congress in Prague was a reactionary attempt to take over the government?a feat that was hardly possible while So. viet tanks were in the streets. To prevent the real story from reaching their own people...
...astonishing as the events of the week were, they were no more mysterious than the motives and timing of the men who triggered them in Moscow. One of the real dramas of the invasion of Czechoslovakia took place in the Kremlin, whose leaders have been locked in debate for weeks about whether to strike down Alexander Dubcek's liberal reforms. Why did Russia's leaders finally decide to use fists instead of flexibility...