Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brezhnev had several matters on his mind. Mostly, he wanted to talk about a meeting of the Czechoslovak Central Committee to be held later in the week to decide the fate of the country's liberal economic program that once was an integral part of Dubcek's now defunct reforms. Czechoslovakia's economy is in deep trouble; productivity has lagged far behind wage increases, and prices are in a wild upward spiral (120% for furniture, 60% for clothing). Russia, which aims to fasten the nation's industry more securely than ever to its own economic needs...
...give primary attention to consumer and light industries. The Russians also ruled out expanded trade with the West. Moreover, Brezhnev demanded the ouster of two key liberals: National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky and Ota Sik, the architect of Czechoslovakia's economic reforms, who retains a seat on the Central Committee despite his self-imposed exile in Switzerland since Russia's invasion. As he was about to fly home for the meeting last week (''He had his ticket in his pocket," said a Swiss official), Sik was warned that he faced disciplinary measures under a new order...
...belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least, the government has been compelled...
Hari Dillon, a Central Committee member of the Third World Liberation Front, said that "for the first time in a mass way the students are fighting back...The main thing the administration used was the armed force of the state...
...other members of the Urban Council will be Romney, who will have trouble articulating any plans he does develop, and Volpe. Employees in Volpe's department, who have been trying to develop comprehensive mass transit programs, already have visions of Inner Belts tearing through central cities in the next four years...