Word: lenart
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...guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky as Premier was Josef Lenart, 40, a wartime underground leader with no embarrassing Stalinist history. Moreover, Lenart's diploma came from Moscow's own Central Committee training school, where he studied from 1953 until 1956. Last week when the new Premier took office, he got a congratulatory message from the school...