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...emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher Jan Patocka, is "a certain moral dignity." The resumption of the crackdown seemed connected with the arrival of a delegation from Moscow, headed by Ivan Kapitonov, a powerful secretary of the Central Committee and professional troubleshooter...
...qualms when she extended the emergency powers vested in her office to the federal level. Considerations of political expediency dictated the action. Her case had gotten out of control in the courts and threatened to topple her regime. Finally on June 25, 1975, Narayan, sensing the imminence of a crackdown on dissent in the country, addressed a large crowd, exhorting employees of the government, the army and the police to disobey any orders they considered illegal. The potential for mutiny was quickly quashed by Gandhi, however, when she declared a state "emergency" within hours of Narayan's speech. Narayan...
...assault on Kohout, author of such plays as Poor Murderer and The Third Sister, was the most dramatic incident in a crackdown campaign against dissidents ordered by Czechoslovak authorities. Last week more than a dozen intellectuals and former party leaders were taken to Ruzyně, interrogated nonstop for as long as 14 hours and then released-only to have the intimidating procedure repeated in a day or so. Their "crime": being among the more than 300 Czechoslovaks who have signed Charter 77, a 3,000-word petition that calls upon Communist Party Boss Gustav Husák's repressive...
...apparent purpose of the new crackdown is to so intimidate the country's intellectuals that they will stop the embarrassing practice of criticizing Party Boss Erich Honecker's regime from inside East Germany. A case in point is Balladeer Wolf Biermann, 40, a poet and songster who regards himself as a dedicated Communist and actually emigrated from West Germany to East Germany in 1953 because he wanted to live in a Communist-run state. Since then he has become an outspoken critic of what he regards as East Berlin's distortion of Marxism, and accuses the East...
Dissident artists and intellectuals are probably not the prime target of the new crackdown. It seems more designed to warn Honecker's 17 million countrymen that overt popular discontent will not be tolerated. In a recent reshuffle of the country's top posts, Honecker demoted some relative moderates and increased the power of the hardliners...