The ninth World Youth Festival convened last week in Sofia, Bulgaria. As in all Communist-dominated slogan-fests, the talk in delegates' dormitories and around restaurant tables rang with indignation and accusation. No one, protested one young Rumanian Communist, has any right to interfere "in the internal affairs of other people." Was he lambasting the U.S. role in Viet Nam, as usual? Not at all. He was talking about the Soviet Union's squeeze on Czechoslovakia a matter that exercised many of the 15,000 delegates far more than the festival's official theme of "solidarity with...
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