Word: springs
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...Spring Maneuvers. By their invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviets arrested, for a time at least, the spread of liberal reforms and forced the country to return more or less to the practice of orthodox Soviet-style Communism. But the Soviets failed in their broader goal of imposing unity on the divided bloc. That failure, along with the defection of the West European Communist parties, is sure to cause further reverberations if the oft-postponed world Communist summit actually does convene in May in Moscow...
...After an initial period of intimidated silence, the Rumanians, the only active Warsaw Pact members that did not participate in the invasion, have become more outspoken than ever against Russian domination in Eastern Europe. Displeased, the Soviets in turn are pressing to hold Warsaw Pact maneuvers in Rumania this spring. Last week Soviet Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, the Warsaw Pact commander, and Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, until recently the Russian viceroy in Prague, visited Bucharest for a chat with Rumanian leaders...
...Spring maneuvers could bring dangerous tensions to the Balkans. Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, who had been enjoying a rapprochement with the Soviets, has withdrawn to his old neutralist stance and begun to strengthen his country's defenses. The Hungarian reaction has been different from all others, probably because the Czechoslovak episode revived the country's own memories of a far more harsh repression 13 years ago. In hopes of escaping a second crackdown, the Hungarians are keeping the political trappings in place, but at the same time are quietly pursuing cultural and economic reforms...
...students are wreckers who aim to "radicalize" the campuses even if some universities are destroyed in the process. Harvard's Dean Franklin Ford describes the varying degrees of militancy as a series of concentric circles; most students are mainly onlookers (see chart). Unfortunately, the torrent of spring-term disorders has clearly put dozens of campuses in dou ble jeopardy. Repressive state legislators are on the war path; so are vigilante-minded conservative students. Unless moderates intervene, campus freedom and evolutionary reform may well be sacrificed to left and right extremists...
Poor baseball. At a time when the sport badly needs to spruce up its image, the major-league teams seem incapable of even drumming up a lively game of toss. Last week, for the first time in the 93-year history of the major leagues, spring training opened to a mass boycott by the players...