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Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
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Cold War
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
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American journalist (1914–1997)
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Political and socioeconomic ideology
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Country in Europe from 1918 to 1992
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