Word: ek
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...happenings in his native Prague last week. He would probably have seen both captor and captives as almost equally powerless. The captor, in this instance, was Party Leader Gustav Husák, who has repeatedly vowed since taking power in 1969 that supporters of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček would not be put on trial for their roles in Prague's short-lived "springtime of freedom," which was crushed by the Soviet-led invasion of August 1968. His promise carried a special conviction because Husák had spent nine years in Communist prisons during the 1950s...
Even so, the most significant trials so far of Dubček's supporters took place in Prague last week-while Husák was vacationing in the Soviet Union. The 13 defendants, who were jailed months ago, were not tried on charges dating from the Dubček era. Instead, most were accused of more recent subversion. Their specific offense: distributing leaflets before the 1971 national elections that reminded citizens of their constitutional right to cross out names on the one-party list of candidates. Yet the real aim of the trial was obviously to intimidate...
Ever since 1950, the Communist government in Prague has steadfastly refused to let the Vatican appoint bishops in Czechoslovakia. The Dubček regime opened negotiations with the Holy See in 1968, but they were abruptly suspended after the Soviet invasion and Dubček's fall. Since then, the country's prelates have been dying off without being replaced. The death of two Czechoslovak bishops last month leaves only one of the country's twelve dioceses in the hands of a Vatican appointee...
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Haunting Question. Husák himself during the 1950s spent eight years in prison for placing his Slovak nationalism ahead of his allegiance to Communism. Ever since he succeeded Dubček in 1969, he has persistently claimed that he would not tolerate political trials. Apparently he has been under pressure from the Russians to crack down on would-be reformers; last month, an editorial in Pravda warned of the "mortal danger" of "counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia...