Word: czechoslovakia
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What are the proper borders for a country? The Germans thought Germany should contain all German-speaking people; Poland and Czechoslovakia disagreed, and World War II was the result. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the new political star in Moscow, believes Russia should include the striped sections of the top map below (note the desired piece of land in the northeast corner). Radical Palestinians envision a Palestinian state with the pre-1947 British Mandate borders as reflected in the map below and to the left. And Serbs hope to create a Greater Serbia that would encompass the striped portions of the map below...
...this will enrage apparatchiks, but says, "then we'll do it outdoors, under the open skies." "It is a great compliment to the artists that they should be feared," says Stoppard. In Belarus to give a master class to the FT, he was reminded of his visits to communist Czechoslovakia, when he saw actors perform banned works in private apartments. As Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led that country's revolution and became its President reminded FT members in a letter of support, "it was the Prague actors' strike in 1989 that triggered" the peaceful uprising. "It's extraordinary...
...artists to pirouette around all political confrontations. Moscow, for instance, shut the door to a Hello, Dolly! troupe after the American bombing of North Viet Nam and kept the Bolshoi Ballet at home after the 1967 Middle East war. Washington retaliated in similar ways after the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. Canceling a ballet tour or an orchestra performance is an easy way for both countries to show displeasure, but American diplomats are hopeful that this time around the ballerinas and the piano players will not be pawns in the game between East and West. Both capitals appear committed...
Soviet soldiers have little contact with the local populations, and sometimes become addicted to drugs or alcohol. A West German newspaper reported that four Soviet soldiers who were on maneuvers in Czechoslovakia last year sold their tank to a tavern owner for two cases of vodka. Such abuses are exactly the kind that Gorbachev has singled out for stern corrective measures in his own country. He is unlikely to ignore them among the Soviet Union's military allies. --By John Moody. Reported by Kenneth W. Banta/Sofia
...bring in a little "sherry wine" and pour each of his aides a glass. Then he announced that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would soon begin nuclear arms talks, and he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin would hold a summit to seal the deal. That afternoon Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia on their brutal mission of suppression. End of dreams...