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Word: czechoslovak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...away with it, the Russians know it will spread." Already, reports are multiplying that tiny free trade union movements may be cropping up in other Soviet satellites. The first explicit confirmation came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland," he said, "people in many places in Czechoslovakia had begun to discuss the status of the unions and their tasks in a socialist society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Poised for a Showdown | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Communist style, is real, though artificially repressed. In the U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, state subsidies hold down the prices of some necessities, and the government pays the bill by keeping wages lean. Bureaucratic ministries are slow to make minor price adjustments. Thus, when prices do increase, they explode. Last year Czechoslovak children's clothing jumped 200% and Hungarian bread went up 50%. At the same time, consumers regularly face shortages. In Communist countries, the block-long queue at meat

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...sponsored by the Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The U.N.'s Five Wise Men | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...Afghanistan" are still ominous. The legalistic fictions used to justify the invasion are distinctly reminiscent of those used to justify "the events in Czechoslovakia" twelve years ago. Then it was called "the temporary deployment of Soviet troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia," ostensibly at the request of the Czechoslovak peoples-even though the invasion crushed the most popular Prague regime in 20 years. Now it is called "the introduction of a limited contingent of Soviet troops temporarily into Afghanistan," ostensibly at the invitation of a government whose head was summarily executed. Moreover, what might be called the Afghan Doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Proximity and Self-Interest | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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