Word: aloises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fate of the topmost liberal leaders, including Dubćek, hung at least partially on a debate between two factions of the ultraconservative majority on the eleven-man Presidium that runs the country. One group, reportedly led by Deputy First Secretary Lubomir Strougal, a ruthless pro-Moscow loyalist, urged...
He is now lecturing at the University of Basel. The vacancies have been filled by Soviet-lining conservatives, including Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, who won infamy last August as two members of the lone trio of Czechoslovaks who initially cooperated with the Russian invaders. The purges continue...
Good Tissue Match. Last week surgeons were astonished to learn that in the grimy Belgian city of Ghent (pop. 235,000), a lung transplant had been performed in utmost secrecy more than three months ago and the recipient was still doing well. Alois Vereecken, 23, a metalworker, received the lung...
Perhaps the Czechoslovaks' chief victory was a negative one. The Soviets have not yet succeeded in finding enough quislings to put together an alternative government. Dubcek was able to deny the most notorious collaborator, Alois Indra, the Interior Ministry, which the Soviets wanted for him. He nonetheless had to...
Critical Test. Dubcek himself was busy trying to counter a growing mobilization of the conservative, hard-lining Communist bureaucrats still scattered in key positions throughout the government and economy. His first really critical test looms at the end of this month, when he intends to summon a Central Committee plenary...