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...farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter of course. The distracted hus band does not even bother to look around while his wife is being raped in a ditch. The scene presumably symbolizes the dehumanized indifference of modern society...
...days earlier. Instead of being whisked secretly onto an airplane, Dubček last week chatted amiably in the Prague airport lounge with a group of his Czechoslovak colleagues. They had come to see Dubček, Premier Oldřich Cerník and Deputy Premier Gustav Husák off for another round of talks in the Kremlin. But throughout the pleasantries, a tired frown flickered on and off Dubček's face, as though he was wondering whether, in reality, he was any freer than six weeks...
...Hus memorial, where only days before angry crowds had confronted Soviet tanks, hippies strummed their guitars. Prague police hustled young Czechoslovaks away from the statue of Wenceslas, the country's patron saint, where for days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing...
...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...
...gone. Like the underground TV crews, some of the leaders of defiance were on the run, and even the underground radio stations had given up broadcasting tips on how to make life miserable for the Russians. One station devoted 45 minutes to a reading on the life of Jan Hus, a 15th century religious reformer who was betrayed while dealing with his enemies on a safe-conduct pass. Arrested and tortured, intoned the commentator, Jan Hus refused to deny "his truth" and went to the stake crying, "Jesus, our Savior, have mercy on me and my country...