Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Czechoslovakia might be able to seek funds and know-how in the West to revitalize its disastrously outmoded industry. The agreement was another barter deal, similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields in western Siberia to Czechoslovak plants near Kosice...
...Czechoslovakia needs your capabilities, knowledge and education." The Czechoslovak leaders even issued special assurances that there would be no reprisals against returnees. Throughout Western Europe, where there are now an estimated 60,000 Czechoslovak "tourists," Czechoslovak embassies are holding briefing sessions to try to convince those who fled to return home. Some Czechoslovaks, especially those who had been caught abroad by the invasion, were indeed returning. But others, notably scientists, professors and artists, sought asylum abroad. Australia sent a Qantas Boeing jetliner to Vienna to pick up 164 refugees, including many scientists and their families, for emigration Down Under. Canada...
Determined, as Reportér Magazine Editor Stanislav Budin described it, to "wed freedom and Communism," the press probed into every part of Czech life. It examined housing problems, urged a return to limited free enterprise, promoted the democratic reforms sought by Dubček and his liberals...
...intellectual weekly Student-have already been banned. The Czech National Assembly last week was called into session to pass a "temporary" press-control bill that re-establishes censorship. As if to prepare for the event, Russian troops moved out of Czech newspaper offices and permitted journalists to return to their desks-where their activities will be easier to observe and control...
...draft evader who has served his time soon finds that his problems are not over, despite the fact that social censure is usually no more a problem than it was before conviction. By and large, the resisters have families and friends who stick with them through their crusade; many return to school or go to work around universities or in peace movements. But all felons are still legally eligible for the draft. Even though the law suggests that those convicted of crimes punishable by more than a year in prison may be exempted, some selective-service boards show continued interest...