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...Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps tab on the number of political prisoners round the world, Lorenz was visibly angry. "My work has always been apolitical," he declared. "But I am anticapitalist. The only politician I've admired is Alexander Dubćek...
...himself a purge victim during Czechoslovakia's Stalin era, has "consolidated" the Communist Party, cutting back its membership by almost one-half, to a total of 1,000,000. Communists thus expelled have usually lost their jobs, together with their party cards. Former Party Chief Alexander Dubček now works as a clerk in the Slovak forestry department, but he earns more than twice as much as hundreds of thousands of minor officials who were ousted with him. Dubček recently wrote to a friend: "If I am getting paid for what I know about this...
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...
...demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
...younger audience. "Young people should come to the opera as they go to hear a pop band," he said. "Opera is a folk art, like bullfighting and prizefighting." His future repertory, he hinted, would vary standard fare with such works as Berlioz's Les Troyens, Janáček's Katya Kabanova and Rossini's frothy L'ltaliana in Algeri. He also had hopes of sponsoring intimate productions on some separate, smaller stage...