Prague Crisis: Svoboda Seeks Moscow Talks Amid Occupation
President Svoboda announced he sought talks in Moscow after failed negotiations with Soviet occupation authorities. Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny greeted his aircraft as thousands gathered for a 21 gun salute. He denied signing a new government and said he acted of free will, while Czech leaders named to accompany him were listed by Tass.
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Svoboda
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Moscow
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Vasil Bilak
Alois Indra
Bohumir Kucera
Gustav Husak
United Press International
Tass
Russia
Eastermany
Hungary
Bulgaria
Poland
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Dr Cisar
Government plan could lift bread prices later this year
The Federal Governments new wheat industry stabilisation plan may raise bread costs when implemented. Canberra disclosed details including a shift away from linking wholesale home consumption prices to the export price of wheat.
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Anthony
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Da Nang Under Fire In Major Vietnamese Offensive
Da Nang the major city near Saigon faced a wide assault by Communist forces with house to house fighting in central areas and a 130 man unit attacking Cam Le. City curfew imposed as US Marines and South Vietnamese Rangers engage snipers and ground troops across Mekong Delta and northern provinces. Australian forces report heavy clashes near Nui Dat with 29 Vietcong killed and minimal casualties among Australians as 1st Battalion RAR clears Vietcong from Long Dien village.
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RAR
Exultant girl describes escape from Soviet Czechia
A 24-year-old Melbourne girl student of Czechoslovak origin, Susan Schott, escaped today from Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia. She telephoned her father in East Hawthorn from West Germany after crossing the border at Tam today. She described tanks, burning houses, dead people in the streets and Soviet guns aimed at travelers. Mrs Maria Schott welcomed the news of her daughter's escape after days of waiting.
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Czechoslovakia
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Europe
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A. Schott
East Hawthorn
Tam
West Germany
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Soviet veto blocks Western Czech crisis resolution at UN
Russia used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to avert a Western draft condemning Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The 10 2 vote with three abstentions followed a heated exchange as Canada proposed sending a personal representative to Prague and Czech Foreign Minister Hajek prepared to address the council.
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Prague
Hopes for scientists in Prague rise
A telegram from Australia raised hopes some of 50 Australian scientists in Prague for a geological conference are safe in Austria. David Green and Mrs Campbell reported husbands in Prague and later safe in Austria. External Affairs awaited word from Prague and Vienna, with officials noting tourists were crossing borders and Brits advised to stay put.
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Canberra
Prague
Czechoslovakia
David Green
Macquarie
Department of Geophysics
ANU
Kenton Campbell
Campbell
W. B. Dallwitz
Turner
Bureau of Mineral Re Sources
Bureau
H. L. Davies
H.N. Fisher
Department of External Affairs
British Foreign Office
Vienna
London
Australia House
Tremendous Tidal Waves Hit Toguan Island
Five hundred people are reported missing after nine tidal waves struck Toguan in Central Celebes. The waves were caused by powerful earth tremors that have rocked the island since August 10.
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Toguan
Celebes
Pro- Czech protest in lower House over Security Council action
Members shouted pro Czech slogans for twenty minutes in the lower House as they demanded why the government did not back the Security Council resolution condemning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Parliament officials and onlookers noted the heated exchange during the session.
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Dota
Czechoslovakia
Czech expatriates avert petrol bomb threat near Soviet Embassy Canberra
An enraged Czech man attempted to throw a petrol bomb at the Soviet Embassy grounds in Canberra yesterday morning after news of the Czech leader Dubcek’s possible death. He was deterred by a group of exiled Czechs on a seven day vigil opposite the embassy. Police, monitoring the area, questioned him but took no action.
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Australia
Dubcek
Uni Ast All Ni Igi Senet
Prague Strikes Mark Early Step In Soviet Occupation
Prague citizens staged a noon to 1pm strike across Czechoslovakia protesting the Soviet occupation. Hospitals, shops, and transport shut. arrests reported as Russian troops moved through the capital. Free Radio Prague claimed escape and leadership plans by reformer Cestmir Cisar, while authorities halted air links and police guarded key sites.
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Waidhaus
Moscow
Central Committee
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Where is Dubcek and the new Czech central committee
More than 1,000 Czech nationalist leaders met secretly in Prague last night to elect a new central committee headed by Mr Dubcek. Delegates used ambulances to reach the site and the congress remained in secrecy in a Prague factory. Secret radios announced 160 members. Dubcek’s whereabouts caused alarm with reports he and Premier Cernik were flown to Moscow, though no official confirmation.
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Dubcek
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Cernik
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
United States
Frank Melville
Elmsford
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Czech Central Committee
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