Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, messages of condolence have been coming from Priya's colleagues and friends all over the world. "He was a very brave man and a good friend," Jonathan Randal of the New York Times cabled from Warsaw. "An excellent traveling companion in dodgy places," said Safer. "Priya," explained TIME's London bureau chief Jim Bell, "was one of those quiet guys whom everyone liked. I never heard anyone say an unkind word about Priya, and I never heard Priya say an unkind word about anyone else...
...Referring to your article "A Severe Case of Angst in Europe" [Oct. 4]. I should like to state that the events in neighboring Czechoslovakia and particularly the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in that country have understandably received utmost attention by the Austrian government. But I would like to make it absolutely clear that at no instance and from no quarter whatsoever any threats have been uttered against Austria which would have justified fears as to an eventual violation of Austrian neutrality. The measures taken by the Austrian government during the present crisis were primarily designed to maintain order...
...then, the Austrians have scrupulously avoided any sort of cold war entanglements. Even so, the Soviets, angered that Austria has become a haven for Czechoslovak refugees (see following story), lashed out at the Austrians, charging, among other things, that the country's press sought to "blacken and revile" Warsaw Pact forces in Czechoslovakia. As improbable as any Soviet invasion seemed, the prudent Austrians considered dusting off an old contingency plan to move government headquarters westward from Vienna to Innsbruck in the event the Red Army marched into the country's eastern region, which until 13 years...
...Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...
...same time as the Moscow demonstration was going on, W.R.I, teams in Warsaw, Sofia and Budapest went into action. All the protesters were arrested as they handed out their leaflets. In Moscow, Miss Rovere and Papworth were questioned for more than five hours, then deported unceremoniously to London next morning. Poland expelled its five Danes almost as quickly. But Hungary and Bulgaria were not so hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations...