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...massive Spanish Hall, with its high ceiling and Bohemian crystal chandeliers. When the tall, blue-eyed boss of the Czechoslovak Communist Party got out of his car, the crowd pressed closer for a better look and reporters broke into applause. Unaccustomed to such public displays, Alexander Dubček, 46, merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia, Dubček has planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest...
Other apparatchiki, like Prague Party Boss Martin Vaculik, reduced themselves to apologetic jelly, went on TV to profess support of Dubček and to deny past errors...
Last Perch. Dubček's men warned the people against going too far too fast with liberalization. Perhaps mindful of the 20 Russian divisions poised across the border in East Germany, even the most outspoken reformers stopped short of suggesting any break with the Soviet Union. The press did, however, give surprisingly frank coverage of last week's riots in Poland, which were partly sparked by the events in Czechoslovakia...
...week's end, Dubček announced that the party Central Committee would gather next week to discuss more "personnel changes." As for Novotny, he continued to tour factories, where he no doubt tried to win worker support by predicting unemployment, inflation and other hardships from Dubcek's reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik...
...some adults-a sign that the calcified Gomulka regime is scarcely more popular off campus than on. As they sacked a movie theater and moved in little knots through Warsaw's side streets, the students began shouting: "Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia!" and "All Poland is waiting for Dubček."-Czechoslovakia's new Communist Party chief...