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...members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman in a Bratislava public garden, under constant surveillance. Former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek is now a pensioner in Prague and a persistent critic of the Husák regime. Former Premier Oldřich Černik holds an obscure research job outside the capital...
...those detained last week read like an alumnal Who's Who of the Prague Spring-the 1968 reform movement led by Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed in 1952 during Stalinist-style purges...
...Brezhnev. Last week Brezhnev ordered Dubček to report to Moscow with his personal list of Czechoslovak "counter-revolutionaries"-for comparison with Brezhnev's own. Under pressure from Brezhnev and his Kremlin colleagues, Dubček accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, who defiantly demanded withdrawal of Russian troops before the U.N. Security Council last month. He was the third reformer of ministerial rank to be sacked (Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Interior Minister Josef Pavel preceded him). Among other leaders forced out: Television Chief Jiři Pelikán, Radio...
...sabotaging 'the Moscow agreements." Dubček himself may well be at the top of the list. It has not escaped the Russians that he has managed to countervail the loss of many a reformer by sacking a pro-Moscow counterpart (last week's swap: Hájek for Communications Minister Karel Hoffman, who compliantly ordered radio and TV to go off the air shortly after the invasion began...
Boston Theatre-Richard Mansfield in Dr. Jek ll and Mr. Hyde...