Word: civics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opposition. Civic Forum leaders announced plans to run candidates in the parliamentary elections they are demanding by next July. As demands for President Gustav Husak's resignation persisted, Vaclav Havel offered to fill the post...
...Civic Forum, the opposition group led by Havel, proposed him for president Sunday, but Communist members of Parliament proposed a referendum of citizens to choose a president...
...measure was tabled in a 5-4 vote, with members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) squaring off against the council's four Independents. The swing vote was provided by Independent Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, traditionally a supporter of rent control...
Even so, the Civic Forum is a model of unity when compared with the Communist Party. Under attack not only from citizens but from rank-and-file members as well, the party seems to be desperately reshuffling its players in hopes of appeasing the public. Adamec must strike a careful balance between party hard-liners and the Civic Forum's relentless pressure for swift action. Last week several Communist legislators apologized for failing to respond sooner to the popular mood. Even ousted party leader Milos Jakes supported the abolition of the party's constitutional right to lead the country...
Other unexpected triumphs have attended the revolution. Last Tuesday two Civic Forum representatives delivered a letter to the Soviet embassy asking the Supreme Soviet to disavow the 1968 invasion. The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly. "We are very happy with the way events are going," embassy counselor Vasili Filipov told them. "Especially that there is no bloodshed, because we feared bloodshed." How times have changed...