Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urged his countrymen to take pictures of the Russian invaders "for later documentation," a small army of Prague amateur photographers started clicking their shutters at the Russians. After Villiam Salgovič, an anti-Dubček conservative, rounded up 40 security agents to run errands for the Soviets, an underground station broadcast all of their license-plate numbers. A truck driver who recognized one plate bore down on the car and rammed it against a brick wall with his two-ton trailer...
...station stayed on the air. Technicians thereupon switched off, temporarily. Meanwhile, cameramen were stuffing Bolex gear under their raincoats to shoot some of the most daring footage ever taken of the Red army at work. By week's end, just minutes ahead of Soviet secret police, the underground TV crew fled across the border to Austria...
...Russian troops brought very little food with them, and Czechoslovaks were in no mood to ease their hunger pangs. Grocers and restaurant operators consistently refused to sell or give them anything, and farmers hid their stock. At one point, the underground radio gleefully announced that the average Russian tank crew's daily ration consisted of "six potatoes and some fat." It is small wonder that, after sitting down to that kind of mess, one trio of noncoms decided to raid a grove of apple trees near downtown Prague. Unfortunately for their appetites, the trees happened to be growing behind...
...passive resistance was summed up by a sign painted in downtown Prague: "Hate intelligently." As their morale started to ebb last week with each new sign that Russia had regained sway over their lives, Czechoslovaks were hating even more, but much of their sly resistance was gone. Like the underground TV crews, some of the leaders of defiance were on the run, and even the underground radio stations had given up broadcasting tips on how to make life miserable for the Russians. One station devoted 45 minutes to a reading on the life of Jan Hus, a 15th century religious...
...attempt to form an independent nation, retaliated with a series of harsh emergency measures. Under a "state of exception" decree, police are staging nightly search raids at Basque homes throughout the province of Guipúzcoa, hauling off truckloads of suspects for detention. To pry out information about the underground terrorists, cops have resorted to torture. They have beaten some prisoners, forced others to stand chest-high for long periods in pools of ice water, ordered a few to bend to the floor and draw a circle around themselves until they passed out. Under another decree that swept the terrorists...