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...Ambassador to Turkey, it appeared that he had been saved from the full wrath of the Communist Party's ultraconservatives. The "ultras" wanted to try Dubček, hero of the liberalizing "Prague spring" of 1968, for his ideological sins. The man who replaced him as party boss, Gustav Husák, pledged repeatedly that there would be no retributions. Husák, after all, spent nine years in prison in the 1950s as the victim of a Stalinist purge...
Galya has had other interesting but troublesome relationships. Last June 18, a friend of hers, Gustav F. Ingwerson, a Denver inventor, painter and plastics designer, died of potassium cyanide poisoning. Ingwerson's will left less to his family than expected. He did bequeath small amounts of stock and an assortment of personal possessions-including a cuckoo clock, a color TV and a dinosaur bone-to Galya and her two children. Galya is now charged by Denver police with forging that will. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity...
Winning and Losing. The three-day Central Committee meeting was regarded by Czechoslovaks as a test of strength. It pitted Gustav Husák, who nine months ago replaced Dubček as party first secretary, against his archrival, Lubomir Strougal, the deputy party boss and leader of the ultraconservatives. Apparently, Strougal not only retained his No. 2 post in the party hierarchy but also replaced the wily Oldfich Cernik as Premier. Cernik's undisputed managerial skills and political agility had enabled him to serve as Deputy Premier in the Stalinist regime of Antonin Novotný and as Premier...
...weeks Alexander Dubček has been the object of a secret struggle within the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. The ultraconservative faction, led by Deputy Party Chief Lubomir Strougal, has wanted to put him on trial for treason. But Boss Gustav Husák, the Moscow-supported "realist" who last April replaced Dubček as party leader, has sought to prevent a return to the terror practices that gripped Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and early '60s. Last week, after a meeting of the ruling eleven-man Presidium in Prague, party officials announced that some time after...
...built Tatra limousine pulled up outside Bonn's White House, the Villa Hammerschmidt. Out stepped two East German diplomats, chilled from their unannounced eleven-hour journey over the icy autobahn from East Berlin. They carried a letter from East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to West German President Gustav Heinemann...