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THE TIMES IS THE MOST FAMOUS NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD. IT HAS A GREAT NAME AND A GREAT REPUTATION. SOME FOREIGNERS MAY REFER TO IT AS THE 'LONDON' TIMES-JUST AS SOME TALK OF THE 'BRITISH' OPEN (GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP) RATHER THAN 'THE OPEN'-BUT RIGHT-THINKING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, RECOGNISING ITS PRIMACY, GIVE IT NO OTHER PREFIX THAN THE ITALICISED DEFINITE ARTICLE. ALL OTHER TIMESES ARE DERIVATIVE FROM IT, AND MOST ARE MARKEDLY INFERIOR TO IT. YET AMONG ITS MORE VIGILANT AND DISCRIMINATING READERS THERE MUST NOW BE SOME UNEASINESS. IN VIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CERTAIN QUESTIONS HAVE TO BE ASKED. IS THE TIMES QUITE AS GOOD AS IT USED TO BE, AND OUGHT TO BE? HAS THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN CIRCULATION DURING THE PAST YEAR OR TWO BEEN MATCHED BY AN IMPROVEMENT OR EVEN MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS, OR HAS THERE BEEN A DETERIORATION? IS THE PAPER STILL INDEPENDENT IN THE SENSE THAT IT HAS BEEN FOR MOST OF ITS LONG LIFE? IS ITS STATUS AS A VITAL BRITISH INSTITUTION BEING FULLY AND FAITHFULLY UPHELD? IS IT STILL A BRITISH INSTITUTION AT ALL? THE UNIQUE PRESTIGE OF THE TIMES WAS ACQUIRED DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF THE LAST CENTURY, UNDER THE CHIEF PROPRIETORSHIP OF JOHN WALTER II (YOUNGER SON OF THE FOUNDER). ONE REASON WAS WHAT WOULD NOWADAYS BE CALLED NEW TECHNOLOGY. BY THE TIME OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO THE PAPER WAS BEING PRINTED ON A STEAM PRESS THAT COULD TURN OUT 1,100 COPIES PER HOUR, FOUR TIMES THE RATE OF PRODUCTION OF ITS RIVALS. THIS GAVE IT A USEFUL HEAD-START AND ENABLED IT TO BECPY: 1985

Excerpted from his study entitled, "The experience of Prague Spring 1968."

Summary in English.

Papers prepared for a conference sponsored jointly by the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, the City University of New York and the International Studies Association, held in New York, N.Y., Apr. 25, 1980.

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