Transcript: Rita Klimova, Symbol of Czechoslovakia's Freedom, Dies

Article: CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S AMERICAN VOICE RITA KLIMOVA FLED ...
The Boston Globe;  March 31, 1990 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON - Rita Klimova may be the first ambassador from Czechoslovakia to say openly ... Her husband, Zdenek Mlynar, became a secretary of Dubcek's Central Committee. Her father edited a reformist magazine. Refused to denounce ...

Article: Prague's Dissident Diplomat;Rita Klimova, New ...
The Washington Post;  January 11, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Rita Klimova was the voice of the Czechoslovak revolution to the English-speaking ... prominent communist thinker in the '60s and a member of the reform Central Committee of party leader Alexander Dubcek. Mlynar left Czechoslovakia for ...

Article: Rita Klimova: Czech Patriot
The Washington Post;  January 26, 1994 ;     402 words ... ... Czech ambassador to the United States Rita Klimova {"The Picture Wasn't Always Pretty ... Communists he so deplores. It is true that Rita Klimova joined the party in 1949 at the age ... antifacist, egalitarian ideology. But Rita Klimova, recognizing the evils of the system ...

Article: `Rita Klimova: Czech Patriot' (Cont'd)
The Washington Post;  February 6, 1994 ;     492 words ... ... admittedly knows nothing of the late Czechoslovak Ambassador Rita Klimova's recent life, I know little of her activities under communism ... great contribution to Czechoslovak-American relations. Rita Klimova was 14 when she and her parents returned to Czechoslovakia ...

Article: Rita Klimova: The Picture Wasn't Always Pretty
The Washington Post;  January 14, 1994 ;     623 words ... ... someone who cannot respond in kind, but Roslyn A. Mazer's eulogy of the former Czech ambassador to the United States {"Rita Klimova: At Home in the New World," op-ed, Jan. 4} indirectly distorts a part of history that should not be made pretty or ...

Article: Rita Klimova: At Home in the New World
The Washington Post;  January 4, 1994 ;     700+ words ...The United States was Rita Klimova's hobby. She had deep affection for this country, an attachment that took root in New York, where her family sought refuge ...

Article: Obituary: Rita Klimova
The Independent - London;  January 7, 1994 ;     688 words ... ... Mlynar (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1967), 1978 Zdenek Klima (died 1980); died Prague 30 December 1993. RITA KLIMOVA was an important figure in the "velvet revolution" that brought down Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Speaking perfect ...