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Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia's two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, are on "vacation" in the Crimea, where they have met with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny. In all likelihood, the Russians openly pressed Husák to sign a statement formally approving the invasion; so far, he has stopped just short of doing that. But undoubtedly, they added a final warning that Moscow has ordered Aug. 21 to be a cool...
...unhappy Czechoslovaks have much to protest. Since stern Gustav Husák replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek as party chief in April, the country has been gripped by an ever-tightening rule. In a swift series of purges, the liberals of the Dubček era have been removed from the Central Com mittee. Among those dropped was Ota Sik, who earned Moscow's ire as the architect of Dubček's economic reforms...
...measure of the Czechoslovak dilemma is that many liberals feel that Husak is their only hope of preventing the situation from becoming even worse. Despite his severe measures, Husák, a genuine Slovak nationalist, is not a Soviet puppet. Once jailed himself for political reasons, Husák has given his solemn word that there will be no return to the reign of police terror that characterized the days of deposed Stalinist Boss Antonin Novotny. So far, there have been no reported arrests. The fear is that Husák will be elbowed aside...
...Demonstration. Just as if his emissaries had not aided the changes, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev sent his warm congratulations to Husák. So did most of the other East Bloc leaders. Predictable protests came from the West, the loudest of them voiced by the West European Communists, who had seen in Dubček's liberal form of Communism an opportunity to enhance their own appeal to voters in their own countries...
...life. Though sympathizing with his plight, many Czechoslovaks felt that his emotional make-up was poorly suited to the daily strain of coping with Soviet demands; they believed that toward the end he had allowed the country to lapse into a dangerous period of drift and indecision. A tough Husák, they hoped, might be able to bargain more skillfully with the Russians and more effectively protect Czechoslovakia's interests...