Word: bratislava
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...Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed in 1952 during Stalinist-style purges. Dubček, who now holds a minor bureaucratic post in the Forestry Commission in Bratislava, was not among the signers...
Last week the terrorists tried again - and this time succeeded. When a passenger train en route from Moscow to Vienna via Warsaw stopped at the Czechoslovak city of Bratislava, two Arabs climbed aboard. They were carrying suitcases that turned out to be loaded with submachine guns and grenades...
...that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
...series of measures aimed directly against the church, the Husák government has ordered all priests to retire at the age of 60, forced younger priests to move from the cities to remote country parishes and severely restricted attendance at seminaries. The students and teachers at the Bratislava Faculty of Theology recently went on a hunger strike when 50 out of 80 candidates for admission were rejected on the orders of the Ministry of Culture...
State educational officials have let it be known that attendance at religious classes will be counted against youths who want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the most heavily Catholic region, the Communist Party organ Pravda warned readers that religion causes schizophrenia, leads to mental imbalance and encourages crime. The national army paper Obrana Lidu denounced the Vatican as the world's "greatest center of ideological subversion...