Word: franti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...read like an alumnal Who's Who of the Prague Spring-the 1968 reform movement led by Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed in 1952 during Stalinist-style purges. Dubček, who now holds...