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Talk about empty gestures. Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally...
Reading the moods of the robust but fragile Czechoslovak has never been especially difficult, going back to Martina's butterball days around the time of her 1975 defection. A stinging loss then could push her past tears to sobs at courtside. Sculpting her body to a point near perfection, and maybe to half a crank beyond that, Navratilova eventually learned to do her crying offstage. With bruised eyes, she reappeared from the locker room 45 minutes after the only Wimbledon final she ever lost, to say the right things. "It's not so bad. I'm happy for Steffi today...
...exuberant imagination, Becker has somersaulted into almost every tennis vacuum, though especially the one in the States. Connors and John McEnroe go on milking their death scene from Camille; the Connecticut- Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl continues to stand by, waiting for U.S. citizenship; and Becker simply makes everyone smile. Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky. But at the end, Becker gently touched Edberg's golden trophy and charmed people again. "I just wanted to remember how it felt," Boris laughed...
...closing address, Gorbachev pronounced the four-day meeting a success and hailed glasnost as "one of the heroes of our conference." He also promised to "bring about a qualitatively new condition in our society and give a human face to socialism" -- the exact phrase used 20 years ago by Czechoslovak Reformer Alexander Dubcek. As Gorbachev joined the delegates in singing verses of the Internationale, he took off his glasses. A pensive, almost weary expression crept across his face, the look of a man who has put one more victory behind him but still has many more battles to face...
...Czechoslovak scientists have made several advances in plastics. Bausch & Lomb used materials and techniques patented by the Czechs to produce the first soft contact lenses. Now Czech researchers say they have invented a plastic that can withstand temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees F. American aerospace firms are interested in using it in rocket nozzles...