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LaGrange College Assistant Professor Brandon Beck visited in Ankara, Turkey,
as well as Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries last summer. He
teaches European history at LaGrange College. Beck is the nephew of Miss Sara
Beck of 583 South Hill street, Griffin.
Crriffinite's Kin Tells About
His Arrest In Czeelioslovakia
LaGRANGE, Ga. — A LaGr
ange College associate profes
sor who was in Czechoslovakia
just prior to the Russian invas
ion this summer has predicted
that “all the Russians have to do
is sit back and wait.”
Brandon Beck, a member of
the LC faculty said, “The Russi
ans are going to try to saddle
Dubcek with an unpopular re
gime by removing the military
and making their presence un
seen while allowing the Dubcek
government to wither away into
meaninglessness. ’ ’
He is the nephew of Miss
Sara Beck, EO3 South Hill street,
Griffin.
The young professor-historian
spent two and half months, from
June to August, traveling on a
rambling unguided tour of Cze
choslovakia and other East Eu
ropean countries.
“They (the Russians) have al
ready forced Dubeck to get rid
of the most liberal member of
his government, but because
Svoboda and Dubceck are so
popular with the people I don’t
think that the Russians will do
anything with them,” Beck con
tinued.
The Russians in Czechoslova
kia, by keeping the lid on the
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press and other news media, are
trying to place the blame for the
invasion on Dubcek, the LC his
torian explained.
“Tire single most amazing fact
to me,” Beck continued, “w a s
the way the Czechoslovakian peo
ple stuck with their leadership.
I would have thought different
ly because Czechoslovakia Is not
a poor country. Actually things
are going quite well for them;
they are a prosperous people.
“In every store window there
were pictures displayed of Svo
boda and Dubcek, stde by
side, over which was hung a So
viet and a Czechoslovakian flag
signifying that the Czechoslova
kians did not want a complete
break with Russia — they were
still Communists, but they sup
ported the Dubcek government.”
Beck said that the students
who were killed while demon
strating against the Russia tanks
were “the most touching thing
about the whole affair.”
According to Beck, this passive
resistance was amazing to the
Russians because they were
told that they were coming to
put down a counter-revolution.
He said that the peaceful demon
strations were shocking to the
Russians.
Os Beck's six days in Czecho
slovakia, four were in travel to
and from the High Tatra Moun
tains and Brunn, the country’s
second largest city. The last
day was spent in Bratislava.
Recalling his experience Beck
said, “I was there two weeks be
fore the ’Big Crunch’ and at that
time everyone was exuberant
and felt that they had won.
“I left tite day the Russians
and Czechoslovakians finished
their talks at Bratislava. At
that time the people I talked to
were telling me that the Rus
sians are not going to make the
same mistakes you (the United
States) made in Vietnam. When
the Russians began moving their
tanks, it came as a complete
surprise.”
Besides Czechoslovakia, Beck
visited France, Austria, Yugo
slavia, Turkey, Germany, and
Hungary while on his summer
trip.
“While in Hungary I was ar
rested for taking pictures in a
railroad station in a town nam
ed Pecs, which is near the Yu
goslavian border.”
According to Beck, the inci
dent occurred during his own
“utter lapse of good sense.” Af
ter taking pictures from a brid
ge overlooking the station, “two
uniformed station police appear
ed and took me to a little room
above the station.”
“It was just like I’ve seen in
the movies —a small room
with two desks and two telephon
es and wires everywhere. Just
one light was hanging from the
celling and a picture of Lenin
was on the wall.”
Beck, a native of New York
with degrees from Gettysburg
College and The University of
Virginia, says that one of the
first things he thought upon en
tering the room was, "Thank
God it’s Lenin and not Stalin.”
The police kept him sitting on
a little bench in that small room
from 5:30 in the afternoon until
around midnight with only one
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ROBERT H. BURCH
U. S. Air Force Master Ser
geant Robert H. Burch, son of
Mrs. Verdie B. Burch of McDon
ough, has been decorated with
the Bronze Star medal at Lock
port Air Force Station, N.Y., for
meritorious service while enga
ged in military operations again
st Viet Cong forces.
BOBBIE L. LUSK
U. S. Air Force Technical Ser
geant Bobbie L. Lusk, son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. R. Lusk of 1110 Lake
avenue, Griffin, recently return
ed to Mountain Home AFB, Id
aho, following 18 days of tempo
rary duty at Ramstein AB, Ger
many, where he participated In
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion exercises. His wife, Barba
ra, is the daughter of W. M.
Gardner of 11 E. Sixth street,
Griffin.
ROBERT D. STEELE
Electrician’s Mate Robert D.
Steele, USN, has completed tr
aining with the River Patrol
Boat Class at the Naval Inshore
Operations Training Center, Val
lejo, Calif. He will also attend
two weeks of Vietnamese langu
age training at the Naval Amphi
bious Base, Coronado, Calif., pr
ior to assignment to a river div
ision in Vietnam. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Steele of
Route one, and the husband of
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GEORGE B. GAISSERT
Army First Lieutenant Geor
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Mrs. George C. Gaissert, was as
signed as a fixed wing aviator In
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Company near Da Nang, Viet
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CHARLES M. MALOY
Anny Private Charles M. Ma
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669th Transportation Company
near Qui Nhon, Vietnam. He is
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LARRY G. FERGERSON
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break to eat.
While developing and viewing
his film, the police told the yo
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but that if he wanted the film he
would have to wait until morn
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"I left that night on a midnight
train and spent the night on a
railroad station bench on down
the line. I was anxious to get
away from there,” he said.
Bombers, Battleship
Pound Viet Panhandle
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. planes
and the battleship New Jersey
teamed up and pounded North
Vietnam’s southern panhandle a
third day in a row, military
spokesmen said today. Ameri
can sources said the jets ran
out of targets and returned with
tons of undropped bombs.
The combined attack Wednes
day struck the supply lines
where Hanoi has demanded an
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American bombing halt as the
price of opening the way toward
peace talks.
In Saigon, American spokes
men said 109 U.S. servicemen
were killed in combat last week,
the second lowest weekly toll of
the year and continuing a
pattern set since peace diploma
cy reports mushroomed Oct. 13.
The previous week’s toll of 100
Americans killed was the lowest
of 1968. Last week South
Vietnamese troops suffered
their lowest losses of the war
and spokesmen said Communist
losses were relatively lower.
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Denies Peace Connection
Despite reports connecting the
lull with peace diplomacy, a
U.S. spokesman said, “There is
nothing to indicate the casualty
figures indicate anything more
than a temporary lull in the
fighting.”
U.S. intelligence and South
Vietnamese leaders have said
the lull apparntly is only a
prelude to fresh Red offensives
in the South.
In the north, U.S. jets flew
126 missions against the pan
handle Wednesday. They hit 48
boats, five bridges 11 trucks
and five antiaircraft sites.
“There just aren't any
worthwhile targets left to hit in
the southern panhandle,’’ a
military source told UPI
correspondent Alvin B. Webb
Jr. “Bombing the North is our
trump card in negotiations with
the Communists. But the
missions are on their last legs.”
Griffin Daily News
Thursday, Oct. 31, 1968
IN WASHINGTON to appeal
to the OAS, Amulfo Arias,
deposed president of Panama,
looks anything but downcast.
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