Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning, when the country's leaders took a train to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, another crowd of 10,000 broke police lines, scattered the band and the honor guard, and mobbed the railway station, shouting: "Long live Dubcek!" "Long live Svoboda...
Further evidence came to light last week from Prague sources to indicate that Brezhnev had been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward...
...week before as Moscow's viceroy for its captive land. A skilled diplomat, Kuznetsov outranks Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko. After assessing the situation, he reported to Moscow that things were not going as badly for the Kremlin as Chervonenko had made out. He said that Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda should be given a while longer to make good on the Moscow accord. As the Czechoslovaks did, in fact, fulfill the first part of the demands, the Soviets reciprocated by withdrawing the remainder of their 275,000 troops* from the cities into bivouac areas in the suburbs and countryside. Many...
...Zionists. In a development ominously similar to the scenario that preceded the invasion, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko hastily flew from Prague to Moscow, where the Soviet Central Committee was in emergency session. Next day, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov flew to Prague for talks with President Ludvik Svoboda, 72, whose sagacious firmness in the crisis has won him the affectionate nickname of "Iron Grandfather...
...Radio Free Czechoslovakia" on the air from a downtown Prague apartment. Because single transmitters are easy to track, engineers bounced their signal to transmitters at new locations every quarter hour, some of them supplied by the Czechoslovakian army. The underground radio network was such a total success that President Svoboda had to broadcast official statements through it last week; the Russian-occupied regular studios remained deserted and unused...