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...Czechoslovakia's extraordinary wave of reform not only shook the country itself but spread through all of Eastern Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief architect of the reforms, consolidated his position and opened the way for further liberalization by forcing the resignation of deposed Party Chief Antonin Novotny, 63, as President of the country that he had ruled with an iron hand for 15 years. Polish students used the reforms in Czecho slovakia as a herald in their defiance of the government. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, an earlier liberalizer (TIME cover, March 18, 1966), read...
Most of the criticism was aimed at Antonin Novotny, 63, who lost his job as party boss to Alexander Dubček in January but is still Czechoslovakia's President. Dubček's supporters believe that they will not be able to carry out all the reforms they want, especially in the stagnant economy, until Novotny and his apparatchik cronies are uprooted from the government. Other Czechoslovaks simply want to banish the remaining vestiges of what had been a humorless and, at times, brutal regime. "Those who have lost the trust of the people," says Professor...
...campaign to silence "unruly" writers, Czechoslovakia's Communist regime is writing its own record of repression. Last week, at a two-day meeting in Prague, the party's Central Committee 1) expelled from the party Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, 41, Playwright Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture...
...flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what it has conceded in other fields as well. In one of his harshest speeches in years, President Antonin Novotny recently warned that the party would not tolerate "the spread of liberalism, pacifism, recklessness and frivolity." Toughening Up. Last week Novotny's regime moved to take away some of the prerogatives that it had granted Czechoslovakian industries earlier this year. By giving factory managers the power to reinvest their...
...both the progress and the retrogression. Because of censorship, Czechs never get to see some of the best movies turned out by their talented directors; among the films that have not yet been screened in Czechoslovakia are Věra Chytilova's audacious Daisies (TIME, June 23) and Antonin Masa's Hotel for Foreigners. Few Czechs have been permitted out of the country to see their highly touted pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal...