Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "Never a Backward Step." Documentary on Lord Thomson, whose press empire comprises 149 papers in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Thomson discusses the press with Media Medium Marshall McLuhan and conducts an interview with Stalinist Antonin Novotny while he was President of Czechoslovakia...
Papousek claims the Czechs are mostly angry with themselves. They allowed Antonin Novotny, who was First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party before the current reformer Dubcek, to exploit the socialist system for personal power. "We should have acted against the misuses of socialism a long time ago," he said...
...coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January coup by army units loyal to ex-party Boss Antonin Novotný, the Stalinist that Dubček bounced from office...
...until some 16,000 Soviet troops remaining on Czechoslovak soil leave the country. Whether or not Dubček eventually decides to meet Brezhnev, however, he emerged from last week's events with the most powerful backing he has had since he took over from the deposed Antonin Novotny almost seven months ago. The fight may have just begun, and Dubček could still be knocked out by the Russians. But he is clearly the winner of the first round...
...Secrets. Antonin Liehm, the bubbly editor of the journal Literárni Listy, speaks of the atmosphere as "a lovely dream from which we never want to wake." The dream, however, does have its limitations. Most of them are the result of the Dubček regime's fear of going too far too fast and perhaps allowing the reforms to get out of hand. Though the government has formally abolished censorship, for example, it asks editors not to write about some 12,000 items on a list of "state secrets." The list includes such seemingly harmless subjects...