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Angry Jangles. The clash outside Lucerna Hall was the kind of public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti...
...sudden occupation and gradually tightening grip on Czechoslovakia have made it clear that freedom is a losing proposition in the country. Yet Czechoslovak leaders and citizens have desperately debated and defined each successive loss to the occupiers, yielding no more of the liberties recently won under Alexander Dubček's reformist regime than absolutely necessary to satisfy Russian demands. Last week the first full-dress debate on Czechoslovakia's prospects took place at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Much of the agenda came straight from Moscow, but that did not stop every pressure group...
...ek also radically curtailed one of the most popular freedoms of his administration-foreign travel-by invalidating all current exit visas and passports. That move will undoubtedly make leaving the country difficult for all but officials, but it may also discourage the thousands of Czechoslovaks now abroad from ever going home...
Suspicious Miniskirts. The Soviets are applying to Tito the same kind of propaganda and diplomatic pressure that they exerted on Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček in the months before Warsaw Pact forces started maneuvers along that country's borders. The Russians are also engaging in considerable espionage and agitation among Yugoslavia's small bands of dissident nationalists. According to some reports, a suspicious number of pretty, miniskirted hitchhikers have blossomed on Yugoslav highways; in foreign accents, they ask drivers who give them lifts all sorts of unfeminine questions about Yugoslav troop deployments. Journalists from Warsaw Pact...
...Despite their overpowering military presence, they still remain unable to find a political quisling to do their bidding. Even so, the Soviet press opened a new attack on the Prague leadership, There were also reports that Soviet army officers were encouraging conservative Communists to form anti Dubček factions. The main problem is that Dubček's popularity remains so high among Czechoslovaks that any move to overthrow him would most likely require direct Soviet military action and perhaps even the creation of a military government. Under those circumstances, the Kremlin leaders still seem reluctant to pursue...