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Then the girl, who had again left her hus band and was dancing in Las Vegas under the name "Tina Mumma," called and told him that she was returning to Chicago for an operation that would erase her memory. The day after she arrived, the elder Saikin appeared at the Indiana farm and told his son that he had shot the girl as she knelt on the warehouse floor. Joel then helped him bury her body...
Party Leader Gustav Husák, who replaced Alexander Dubček in April, was also anxious to ensure calm-though his government's threats against demonstrations only tended to increase the country's nervousness...
Emboldened, the crowd in Wenceslas began shouting, "Husák is a traitor, Husák is a traitor!" In response, police lobbed tear-gas grenades. As people fled the square, the side streets were quickly blocked by troops. Bands of helmeted police waded into the fleeing demonstrators, indiscriminately clubbing young and old alike...
...part, the severity of the crackdown is a reflection of the intensity of a power struggle that pits Husák against Lubomir Strougal, 44, the deputy party leader, who has recently emerged as the No. 2 man in the country's hierarchy. Though demonstrators scrawled the words HUSÁK-RUSÁK (Husák the Russian) on walls, the fact is that the Russians do not entirely trust Husák. He is in an unenviable position: rejected by the reformers because he replaced Dubček, disliked by the Czech majority because...
Absorbing Maneuver. In some ways, their preparations were eerie reminders of the buildup to last summer's invasion. The two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, returned last week from an eight-day meeting with Soviet officials in the Crimea. They were probably exposed to some of the same demands tor strict party control that awaited Dubček last year at the showdown sessions in Cierna and Bratislava. More ominously, Soviet troops were reported to be conducting large scale maneuvers in Poland and East Germany along their frontiers with Czechoslovakia. Within...