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...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...
...people." After months of rumors, the party paper, Rudé Právo, announced that Dubček had been suspended from party membership and that several leading reformists, including ex-National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky, had been expelled from the party. Though the Soviet Union has been supporting Husák, last week's developments seemed to imply not only a weakening of his hold on the party but also a shift in Soviet support to the extremists...
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...
...Overall, Husák's position appears to have been considerably weakened. The purge affected many "realists" who, like Husák, initially supported Dubček but quickly adjusted to the Soviet occupation. Ultras, who recently took control of the party organization in Prague, moved into positions of power in the trade-union movement and perhaps even the Interior Ministry, which controls the secret police. Josef Korčák, who became premier of the Czech lands, threatened a crackdown on Czechoslovakia's associations of artists and writers. There was also the threat of new purges among...
...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...