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...Prague, following a Brandt suggestion that diplomatic talks might be helpful, Party Leader Gustav Husák responded swiftly, albeit cautiously. "We are waiting for an initiative," said Husák, who proposed as a starter the repudiation "from the beginning" of the 1938 Munich Pact that ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. Bonn already considers the pact void. In any case, the territory was returned to Czechoslovakia after World...
...extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...face of Czechoslovakia's steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 workers at the Skoda auto works in Pilsen, he admitted: "Quite a lot of people are falling into some sort of depression. They are spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors...
...Horst Ehmke, 42, a former law professor who took over as Justice Minister last July when the former incumbent, Gustav Heinemann, was elected Federal President. A levelheaded liberal, Ehmke is expected to continue in Justice, pressing for a complete revision of Germany's outmoded legal code and sex laws...
...Soviet invasion killed that hope. Dubček's successor, Gustav Husák, justly complains that he took over an economy in chaos-but unjustly blames the Dubcek regime and specifically Sik, who is on indefinite official leave in Switzerland. The chaos is really the result of the repeal of the Dubček and Sik reforms, and of the fact that Czechs today commonly proclaim: "We are not going to work for the Russians." The Soviets, for their part, are doing nothing to help. They are withholding sorely needed credits until political "normalization" is complete...