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...Czechoslovakia, the official newspaper Rudé Právo has also published letters expressing anxiety over the missile deployments, and local Communist Party groups have staged meetings to quell some of the fears. Church groups, however, have remained securely muzzled, as have the country's few remaining political dissidents. Last month a document from Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 underground dissident group emerged in the West, noting that about 20 members of the tiny organization had been picked up by police and warned to watch their words on the missile issue. Any expressions of opinion about the impending Soviet...
...asked, "What kind of life awaits us?" The words were not new, nor was the fear that prompted them: the stationing of new nuclear missiles in Europe. The forum, however, was different. The letters were printed not in West European newspapers, but in Czechoslovakia's official Communist daily, Rudé Právo. Despite their ambiguous phrasing, they seemed to convey thinly masked criticism of recently announced Soviet plans to station new tactical nuclear weapons in Czechoslovakia and East Germany if NATO begins to install new missiles in Western Europe. Deployment of the U.S.-made weapons is scheduled...
Backing down, Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek lamely announced that Prague was of course observing the Helsinki agreement and would continue to do so. Radio, television and the press abruptly ended their denunciations of the chartists. Explaining the turnabout, the party newspaper Rudé Právo declared that the nation had been temporarily "distracted" by a mere handful of "reactionaries" but that the time had come again to go on to "further successes in the building of socialism...
Harvard's big-boat expert, Andy Burnes, skippered the Crimson entry with co-captain George Putnam serving as tactician and Rick White as navigator. John Bowers, Rud Istvan, Oivind Lorentzen, Dave Brownlee, and Dave Tew rounded out the crew...
...Peking summit progressed. One Moscow newscast began with a few minutes of video tape of Nixon and Chou in Peking, then cut to footage of an attack on a Viet Nam village by U.S. planes. Other East-bloc capitals followed Moscow's lead. The Czech party paper Rudé Pràvo snarled that both the U.S. and China were obviously "willing to ally themselves with the devil...