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...scene was poignantly reminiscent of happier days in Czechoslovakia. As Alexander Dubček walked toward a waiting jetliner in Prague last week, a mechanic and an air hostess rushed forward to request his autograph-just as throngs of admirers used to do in early months of 1968, when Dubček's democratic reforms brought a Springtime of Freedom to the country. But this time, as another hostess and Mrs. Dubček wept openly, the former party leader turned the autograph seekers away. Then the man who had sought in vain to liberalize Czechoslovak Communism helped...
...Dubček paid a political price for his departure, as well as a human one. Before he left, he wrote a letter announcing his resignation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party, his last important political post. Two days later, the 135-member committee opened its first meeting in four months with the announcement that "at the proposal of the Presidium" Dubček had quit. His removal was only the first of many. During the conference at Hradčany Castle atop Prague's highest hill, the committee ousted from office the last remaining moderates from...
...advisor, Lee Dub ridge, said, "we are vigorously pursuing all avenues to determine whether this talented and ded-icated group of people and this fine facility can be utilized for the solution of other pressing needs of the nation...
...Duties. In mid-December, when the Czechoslovaks sounded out Ankara about accepting Dubček, the Turkish government responded with wholehearted approval. Dubček is something of a hero to many Turks. Because of the extraordinary appeal of Dubček's brand of "Socialism with a human face," the Czechoslovaks could not send him to another Soviet-bloc nation. They apparently chose Turkey because of its established reputation for suppressing foreign political intrigues...
Ambassador Dubček, who initially resisted the appointment, will find few pressing diplomatic problems between Ankara and Prague. The embassy has only a seven-man staff, and Dubček's main duty will consist of overseeing Czechoslovakia's $44 million in trade with Turkey. Meanwhile, the campaign against liberals continued in Prague. Josef Smrkovsky, the former president of the National Assembly who was Dubček's closest ally, was stripped of membership in the federal legislature, his last state function. Ten other liberals were also forced to resign, thus virtually completing the purge...