Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupation. They reserved the privilege to intervene in Czechoslovak affairs whenever they again detect another threat of "counter-revolution." The Kremlin is likely to use that clause to intimidate First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek from attempting to reinstate his earlier liberalization policies. On the military front, Moscow gained the right to station troops on Czechoslovak soil indefinitely...
...imprisoned writer Yuri Daniel, and Pavel Litvinov, the 31-year-old physicist grandson of Stalin's prewar Foreign Minister. The reasoned, quiet pleas of the two dissenters are an eloquent echo of all those, from Socrates to Zola, who risked their own freedom in order to defend the right of men to speak freely...
PROSECUTOR: The defendant has no right to speak of things that have nothing to do with the accusation and no right to speak of the actions of the Soviet government and people. I demand that Defendant Bogoraz [Mrs. Daniel's maiden name] be denied the right to continue...
...police station, in which it was stated that I had committed a crime under Article 190. "You fool," said the policeman, "if you had kept your mouth shut, you could have lived peacefully." He had no doubt that I was doomed to lose my liberty. Well, perhaps he is right and I am a fool...
...acted as though everything was a foregone conclusion. He collected only those facts that he considered necessary. As for the trial itself, the official procedures were violated. Our friends were not allowed in. My wife was admitted only with great difficulty. There are people here who surely have less right to be here than our friends...