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...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...
...lieu of evidence, the prosecution referred to a bar of chocolate that Lederer's daughter had supposedly received from the CIA. After deliberating 1½ days, the court meted out 3½ years to Ornest, three years to Lederer, suspended sentences to Havel and Pavliċek. Said Havel: "It was a dress rehearsal for trials of many other signers of the Charter...
...František Tomášek, 77, the church's chief administrator in Czechoslovakia since 1969. Tomášek was made a cardinal in secret a year ago, but relations with the Communist regime have remained so poor that the Vatican decided that revealing the appointment would do no harm and might give oppressed Czech believers a focus for unity...
...Committee in Bohemia only a year after the 1948 Communist coup d'état toppled Prague's last democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...Kaplan received an appointment as research director of the Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Trials, which had been established by Dubček to investigate the repressive practices of the Stalinist period. In this job, Kaplan had the opportunity to examine and, presumably, to copy documents on a wide range of subjects...