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Last week the Communist Party Presidium issued a warning to the Czechoslovak people admonishing them to refrain from all forms of dissent against the regime or the Soviet occupiers. Otherwise, as Dubček declared, "The party will impose inevitable measures. They might seem undemocratic, but they will ensure that this republic is not driven by anarchistic tendencies." Not surprisingly, Dubček's popularity has declined sharply in Czechoslovakia. In fact, only 41 months after their tanks crashed into Czechoslovakia, the Soviets have, in effect, succeeded in destroying not only the liberal reforms but the reformer as well...
...FIREMEN'S BALL. From a slight and funny anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief, Director Miloś Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a delightful parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy in pre-Dubćek Czechoslovakia...
...Realists. Part of the Russians' satisfaction stems from their success at confining Duběek's authority within a vastly altered party apparatus. Recently the Communist Party's Central Committee met for the first time since the invasion in plenary session and took measures that diffused the country's real leadership in an eight-man "executive committee...
Though still headed by Duběek, the committee is stacked in favor of the "realists," or those seemingly willing to compromise with the Russians...
Though he went along with enough of Duběek's liberal plans to win a government post as Deputy Premier this year, Strougal shrewdly managed to drop out of sight after the invasion, obviously playing for time in his new choice of loyalties. Whether or not those loyalties now belong fully to the Russians, he fared very well at the Central Committee meeting. He not only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority...