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Fierce fighting Wednesday night between student rebels and the forces of President Gustav Diaz Ordaz' government in the area of the Plaza of Three Cultures left at least 25 dead, hundreds injured and thousands in jail...
Kuznetsov also seemed to be doing what Chervonenko had dismally failed to do: lining up an alternative leader to Dubcek. On a one-day flying visit, Kuznetsov went to the Slovak capital of Bratislava for a chat with Gustav Husak, the Slovak party secretary whose recent public criticism of Dubcek's handling of Czechoslovakia's short-lived reform program won favorable mention in the Soviet press. Kuznetsov's visit encouraged speculation in Czechoslovakia that the Soviets hoped ultimately to replace Dubcek with Husak when the switch could be made without needlessly inflaming the country's turbulent...
...Czechoslovaks, who remember the virulent press criticism that preceded the tanks just a few weeks ago. Nearly everyone braced for some new Soviet move. Some Czechoslovaks feared that harsh new pressures would be placed on Dubċek or that he might be shunted aside in favor of Gustav Husák, the leader of the Slovak branch of the party, who last week seemed to have won some favor with the Soviets for his open criticisms of "errors and inadequacies" in Dubċek's former policies. Others feared, but hardly dared say it, that the Soviets, having...
...Presidium must also be represented. Bilak and Indra joined the delegation, as did another conservative, Jan Filler, the party boss of Middle Bohemia. To balance the lineup, Svoboda was also permitted to bring along three Dubcek loyalists: Defense Minister Dzur, Minister of Justice Bohuslav Kucera and Central Committeeman Gustav Husak. It began to look like Cierna all over again?but on the Kremlin's terms. Before leaving, Svoboda asked the nation via clandestine radio to "have trust...
President The Gustav Mahler Society...