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Demonstrations were also reported in Bratislava, Brno, Plsen, Hradec Kralove, Ceske Budejovice, Kosice and other cities...
Czechoslovak TV said at least 200,000 people took part in the march in the capital. It also reported 20,000 protesters in the city of Brno, 10,000 in Bratislava and 5000 in Liberec...
...dubbed a "Fax Americana." America's influence will derive, in part, from its role as an exemplar of ideas and a purveyor of information. Ronald Reagan, in a speech in London last month, talked about how "electronic beams blow through the Iron Curtain as if it were lace." In Bratislava, Czechoslovak students sometimes drop by the city's new hotel, equipped for international television reception, where the maids let them watch the music-video shows. Recently, the students have been tuning in to reports from China instead. George Orwell prophesied that advances in information technology would lead to Big Brother...
...years since Warsaw Pact tanks brought an end to Dubcek's brief experiment with liberalization, the former Communist Party leader, now 67, has been living humbly in Bratislava, working as a minor forestry official until his retirement in 1982, when he turned his attention to gardening. During the same period, Havel has become internationally famous both for his plays, such as The Memorandum and Temptation, and for his role as a leader of Czech dissent...
...years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours. His most recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen...