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Brezhnev and the other party bosses had summoned Czechoslovak Party Leader Alexander Dubček to Warsaw to explain his policies, but Dubcek politely declined. Instead, he offered to meet separately in Prague with each one of the Communist leaders. Dubcek feared going to any meeting where the other leaders might join in browbeating him, was especially wary of being lured out of the country at a time when his reformist regime seemed in peril. After Dubček's refusal, the other bosses obviously decided that they had reason enough to meet by themselves...
...country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes; later, more than 30,000 more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners at a special party Congress to be held on Sept. 9, when Dubček's reformers hope to sack most of the remaining followers of deposed, pro-Stalinist President Antonin Novotn...
...diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn out to be an East German Alexander Dubček...
Thus no real purge has occurred so far, and that other Communist ritual that comes with every change of regime -rehabilitation-has also been slow to start. Dubček released about 450 political prisoners soon after his takeover. But he has yet to review the trials, many of which were rigged, of some 40,000 former prisoners, or to restore to good grace by any official act about 100,000 people who lost their party membership, jobs, pensions and other privileges because of political acts or "unreliable opinions." Such redress as there has been has come from ordinary citizens...
Russian Troops. The removal of Novotný from the Central Committee reflect's Dubček's growing strength, and he plans to consolidate it at a special party congress in September. Dubček, however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about...