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...Virginia, Republican Ray Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor vehemently attacked Bateman's plan...
...Propaganda Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...Kaplan received an appointment as research director of the Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Trials, which had been established by Dubček to investigate the repressive practices of the Stalinist period. In this job, Kaplan had the opportunity to examine and, presumably, to copy documents on a wide range of subjects...
...charter's signatories and the list of those detained last week read like an alumnal Who's Who of the Prague Spring-the 1968 reform movement led by Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed...
...Editor says the movie is too long. He says we could save 20 minutes by cutting out most of Cornelia's nude scenes. He also says we should dub her voice. Cornelia would never go for that...