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...management board of his ritzy Manhattan apartment building, Koecher described himself as "a consultant on national security matters." That was true too, after a fashion. According to federal authorities, Koecher did have one client, to whom he told everything he knew about U.S. national security: the Czechoslovak intelligence service. Koecher, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged last week with spying for his native Czechoslovakia...
Koecher was arrested with his wife Hana, 40, who is also a Czech turned American, four hours before the couple were to board a flight bound for Zurich. Although federal prosecutors say that Hana worked between 1974 and 1983 as a transatlantic courier for Czechoslovak intelligence, she was taken into custody last week only as a witness to her husband's alleged crimes. She was not charged, a Justice Department official suggested, because the FBI bungled her arrest. If convicted, Karl Koecher could be sentenced to life in prison...
...world's most prestigious literary prize (now worth $190,000) to a man virtually unknown outside his own country. He is Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83. Only two of Seifert's 30 volumes of poetry are currently in print in the U.S., one published by a Czechoslovak society in New York City, the other by The Spirit That Moves Us Press of Iowa City, Iowa...
...Czechoslovak police filled the narrow cobbled streets around the Palais Lobkowitz in central Prague last week, checking the documents of anyone passing by the imposing building that houses West Germany's embassy. Inside, West German guards nervously scanned the garden walls. Both forces were trying to stem a small flood of East German citizens who had been pouring into the embassy compound, at one point scaling the walls to gain asylum and the hope of eventual transfer to the West. At week's end about 100 refugees were huddled inside the former Czechoslovak palace, to the embarrassment...
...recent months Moscow's guidance to the East-bloc satellites has not always been clear, and even Czechoslovak officials have complained about fuzzy communications with the Kremlin. "The Soviets are very insecure right now," said a West German expert on Soviet affairs. "They feel a need to impress discipline on Eastern Europe. Just as they have decided to retreat from world affairs for the moment, they want their minions to do the same...