Word: svejda
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Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
That night they moved on. A police limousine and two motorcycles stopped on the road; the police opened fire as the Czechs ran into a patch of woods. The Vopos surrounded the patch with searchlights and combed it with machine-gun fire. Svejda was hit. The other three wanted to take him along, but the wounded man said: "Leave me here. Save yourselves...
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