Looking for Mr. Glasnost: Scenes from Today’s Czechoslovakia, Where Everybody Waits, and Hopes
Empty your pockets, please!” the khaki-uniformed customs officer demanded after he recited the number, section, and name of the law which gave him the authority to do so. I was relieved that he was apparently not going to strip-search us in that forbidding back room. “Only 50 feet to freedom,” I thought as I threw … Read more