Edited and translated by Jiri Hochman. Kodansha International, 339 pp., $2 7.50.

This year has been punctuated with anniversaries of the,tragic events of 1968. One extraordinary week in late March and early April 1968 crystallized both the radiant hopes and desolate despair of that year. I was in Prague for an ecumenical peace conference. On the day of my arrival, Ludvik Svoboda (the last name means "freedom") was inaugurated as Czechoslovakia's new president, an event that symbolized the beginning of the Prague Spring and "socialism with a human face." The balmy ...

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