Word: ek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prague, new Czechoslovak Party Boss Alexander Dubček scolded the So viet Ambassador for continuing to visit and consult with the man who was recently deposed from power, Antonin Novotný. Calling Stepan Chervonenko into his office, Dubček expressed "surprise and indignation" at this breach of party etiquette...
Communist Czechoslovakia's new leaders published detailed blueprints last week for their own "road to Socialism." Debated for weeks in camera, the action program drawn up by new Party Boss Alexander Dubček stressed the country's development through a combination of "broad democracy with a scientific and highly qualified management." It stopped short of the outright democratization that many Czechoslovaks are clamoring for, and made abundantly clear the Communist Party's unwillingness to permit challenges as yet to its dominant political role. Nonetheless, the remarkable document officially retired many bits of Marxist dogma and dealt...
...Monopoly Position," Dubček's program downgrades the dread State Security Service, or secret police, by depriving it of its ordinary police powers and confining its activities to counterespionage. The program asks for the rewriting of legal codes to assure "better and more consistent" protection of such rights as freedom of assembly and speech, envisions the proliferation of "specialinterest associations" and a strengthened role for non-Communist political parties. It also exhorts the Communist Party not to interfere in the work of the courts and judges...
...uncertain terms, Dubček's program plots a return to the economic reforms designed by Economist Ota Šik, who has been nominated for one of five Deputy Premier posts in the new government. Slowed down under the regime of ex-Party Boss Antonín Novotný, the reforms place faith in market determination of prices, competition among enterprises, more incentives for workers and less bureaucratic control. The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position...
...caution. Conscious of the apprehension of the Soviet Union and other Communist neighbors, the Central Committee passed a resolution warning of the dangers of two extremes. On the one hand, the resolution declared the party's firm intention of preventing a return to the era before Dubček's takeover; on the other, it cautioned the people against trying to go back to the days before Communism...